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Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has arrived in the island of Saipan ahead of his court hearing, Wikileaks said on Wednesday. On Tuesday it was revealed Assange had struck a deal with the United States in the long-running dispute over his extradition. Assange is expected to plead guilty at the court hearing to conspiracy to unlawfully obtain and distribute classified documents as part of a deal with the US justice system and be sentenced to more than five years in prison. The sentence corresponds to the length of time the whistleblower has already spent in a high-security prison in London. The…

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