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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Assange attends the Pope’s funeral
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.


Julian Assange, freed after plea bargain, joins crowds at Pope Francis’ farewell alongside world leaders
ROME, April 27 — Wikileaks founder Julian Assange joined the crowds yesterday in Rome for Pope Francis’s funeral, according to AFP journalists. Assange mingled with thousands of mourners just outside St Peter’s Square, where world leaders including US President Donald Trump were gathered to say farewell to the head of the Catholic Church. “Now Julian is free, we have all come to Rome to express our family’s gratitude for the pope’s support durin…
Wikileaks founder Assange joins crowds for pope’s funeral
ROME: Wikileaks founder Julian Assange joined the crowds on Saturday in Rome for Pope Francis’s funeral, according to agency journalists. Assange mingled with thousands of mourners just outside St Peter’s Square, where world leaders including US President Donald Trump were gathered to say farewell to the head of the Catholic Church. “Now Julian is free, we have all come to Rome to express our family’s gratitude for the pope’s support during Jul…
WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange Attends Pope Francis's Funeral - News From Antiwar.com
Julian Assange and his family traveled to Rome over the weekend and were among hundreds of thousands of people at the Vatican attending the funeral of Pope Francis, who was a supporter of the WikiLeaks founder. "Now Julian is free, we have all come to Rome to express our family’s…
The 82-year-old cousin (arrived from Thailand), Di Segni, Assange, Casarini: who was there, at the funeral of Pope Francis
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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