 The Australian agreed to plead guilty to a single count of conspiracy to obtain and disseminate national defense information and was sentenced to the time he had served in London, five years and two months, and given his liberty. Assange has become a hero for activists who point to his role in divulging information about the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but critics fault him for putting out vast quantities of government documents without any filtering. That was from the news site AFP.