BRUSSELS, Oct. 1 (Xinhua) -- The founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange said on Tuesday that he was freed after years of incarceration because he had chosen "freedom over unrealizable justice", as he described his plea deal with U.S. authorities.
In his first public comments since he was released from custody after a 14-year legal saga with his plea deal with the United States, Assange told a hearing in Strasbourg, France, organized by the legal affairs and human rights committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, that he had "pled guilty to journalism."
