IN FULL: Julian Assange makes first public statement since prison release.

IN FULL: Julian Assange makes first public statement since prison release.

•Without the efforts made in my case, I never would have seen the light of day

•I’m free today because I pledged guilty to journalism

•I regret how expressing the truth has been undermined.

•‘Having a map of where we are lets us understand where we might go’.

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