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Wikileaks founder Assange joins crowds for pope funeral

  • Julian Assange, the Wikileaks founder, was released from prison in 2024 under a plea bargain after years of incarceration for publishing confidential US government documents.
  • Around 200,000 people, including world leaders, gathered for Pope Francis's funeral, where Assange and his family joined the crowds to express gratitude for the Pope's support during Assange's persecution.
  • Assange spent most of the previous 14 years either holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy in London to avoid arrest or locked up at Belmarsh Prison in the British capital.
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Rome. Wikileaks founder Julian Assange was part of the crowd who attended Pope Francis’ funeral yesterday. The Australian and his family mingled with the more than 400,000 attendees near Via della Conciliazione, the wide avenue leading to St. Peter’s Square, for the funeral.

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To the papal fuerals also the 82-year-old relative, Ana Rosa Sivori; the founder of Wikileaks (in Rome with his wife and children); and the head of mission of the Mediterranean NGO

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ANSA broke the news in Italy on Saturday, April 26, 2025.
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