Julian Assange is set to land on Australian soil as a free man after more than a decade holed up in a British high-security jail and in the Ecuadorian embassy in London for exposing US war crimes. His brother Gabriel Shipton spoke to 7NEWS chief reporter Chris Reason from France on Tuesday, opening up about his brother’s plans for recovery Down Under after his 14-year legal battle, which threatened another several decades in jail.
This has been a long slog, for Julian especially, but also for us, in this fight to get him out of the prison.” Stella told BBC Radio on Tuesday: “It’s been so touch-and-go, we weren’t really sure until the last 24 hours that it was actually happening.” She said she did not want to say too much before the US judge approved the deal. “It’s just incredible. It ... feels like it’s not real,” she said.