Julian Assange

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange heads to Australia a free man

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange walked free on Wednesday from a court on the U.S. Pacific island territory of Saipan after pleading guilty to violating U.S. espionage law in a deal…

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Reactions to Julian Assange’s flight to freedom after US plea deal

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is due to plead guilty on Wednesday to violating U.S. espionage law, in a deal that will set him free after a 14-year British legal odyssey…

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WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange to be freed

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is due to plead guilty on Wednesday to violating U.S. espionage law, in a deal that will end his imprisonment in Britain and allow him to…

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Wikileaks’ Julian Assange given permission to appeal against U.S. extradition

WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange's battle to avoid extradition to the United States received a huge boost on Monday when London's High Court ruled that U.S. assurances over his case were…

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Biden considering Australian request to drop Julian Assange charges

US President Joe Biden has said that he is considering a request from Australia to drop the prosecution of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. The country's parliament recently passed a measure…

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Australia’s Foreign Minister says Julian Assange case has ‘dragged on for too long’

SYDNEY, July 29 (Reuters) - Australia's Foreign Minister Penny Wong said on Saturday the long-running case of imprisoned Wikileaks founder Julian Assange had gone on too long and needs to…

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Pope Francis meets family of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange

VATICAN CITY, June 30 (Reuters) - Pope Francis on Friday granted an audience to the wife of Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks who is behind bars in Britain and…

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Julian Assange loses US extradition challenge, will renew appeal next week

LONDON, June 9 (Reuters) - WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange has lost his latest attempt to fight extradition from Britain to the United States where he is wanted on criminal charges,…

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Australia PM says ‘frustrated’ over continued detention of Julian Assange

SYDNEY, May 5 (Reuters) - Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Friday he was frustrated for not yet finding a diplomatic fix over the continued detention of Julian Assange…

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Julian Assange appeals to European court over U.S. extradition

LONDON (Reuters) - WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange, who is battling extradition from Britain to the United States where he is wanted on criminal charges, has submitted an appeal to the…

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‘Political fix’ needed for Wikileaks’ Assange – lawyer

SYDNEY, Oct 21 (Reuters) - A lawyer for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said an "urgent political fix" is needed in his case because legal appeals against his extradition to the…

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WikiLeaks’ Assange lodges appeal against U.S. extradition

WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange has appealed to the High Court in London to block his extradition to the United States to face criminal charges, his brother said, the latest step…

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Macron rival Mélenchon says if elected will grant Julian Assange French nationality

Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the French Leftist politician leading an alliance set to make major gains in the parliamentary elections, pledged to grant WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange French nationality if his coalition…

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Factbox: WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange

LONDON, June 17 (Reuters) - British interior minister Priti Patel on Friday approved the extradition of WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange to the United States where he is wanted on 18…

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UPDATED: UK approves U.S. extradition of WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange

LONDON, June 17 (Reuters) - British interior minister Priti Patel on Friday approved the extradition of WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange to the United States to face criminal charges, bringing his…

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UPDATED: WikiLeaks’ Assange gets married in UK high-security jail

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange married his long-term partner Stella Moris inside a British high-security prison on Wednesday at a small ceremony attended by just four guests, two official witnesses and…

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UPDATED: WikiLeaks’ Assange can take extradition appeal to UK’s top court

LONDON, Jan 24 (Reuters) - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Monday was given the chance to challenge at Britain's highest court a decision allowing him to be extradited to the…

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Julian Assange to marry partner in prison

Julian Assange has been granted permission to marry his partner Stella Moris in Belmarsh prison, the BBC has been told. The Wikileaks founder and Ms Moris have two sons together,…

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U.S. tries again to extradite Wikileaks’ Assange from Britain

A London judge on Wednesday widened the scope of a U.S. appeal against a block on the extradition of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange from Britain and will hear the renewed…

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Assange’s fiancée urges Biden to free WikiLeaks founder to show U.S. has changed

President Joe Biden must let Julian Assange go free if he wants the United States to become a beacon for a free press once again and put the legacy of…

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Photo Story: Anything to Say? art installation in Geneva

People walk past the sculpture 'AnythingtoSay?' by Italian artist Davide Dormino representing the whistleblowers (L-R) Edward Snowden, Chelsea Manning and Julian Assange as the artwork is installed on the Paquis…

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UPDATED: Wikileaks’ Assange denied bail by London court

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was denied bail on Wednesday because a judge said there is a risk he may abscond while the United States tries to secure his extradition from…

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WikiLeaks founder Assange to hear UK judge’s ruling on extradition to US

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will learn on Monday whether a British judge has approved his extradition to the United States to face charges including espionage over the release of secret…

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Assange’s legal battle to avoid US espionage trial resumes in London

Julian Assange resumes his battle in a London court on Monday to avoid extradition to the United States to face criminal charges over the activities of his WikiLeaks website, after…

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Britain to start hearing US case for extraditing Assange

Britain on Monday starts hearing Washington’s extradition request for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in a test case of media freedoms in the digital age and the limits of US justice.…

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Spanish ex-marine accused of spying on Julian Assange

Spain’s High Court, the Audencia Nacional, is closing in on David Morales, the head of the Spanish security company US Global S. L., and who is under investigation for spying…

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Doctors urged Australian government to lobby to allow Assange return home for urgent medical treatment

More than 100 doctors have urged Australia to lobby for imprisoned WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to be returned home for urgent medical treatment. SBS reports that the group has written…

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Doctors warn Julian Assange could die in jail without urgent care

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange could die in prison without urgent medical treatment, according to an open letter signed by more than 60 doctors who say he is suffering from physical and psychological…

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WikiLeaks founder appears in London court for extradition hearing

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange appeared in a London court on Monday for a hearing on whether he should be extradited to the United States to face spying charges. Assange, cleanly…

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CNN: Security reports reveal how Assange turned an embassy into a command post for election manipulation

New documents obtained exclusively by CNN reveal that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange received in-person deliveries, potentially of hacked materials related to the 2016 US election, during a series of suspicious…

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The US formally submitted an extradition request for Julian Assange

The United States government has formally submitted an extradition request to the UK for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Assange was evicted on April 11 from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London,…

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Swedish Court rejected request to detain Assange over 2010 rape case

A Swedish court on Monday rejected a request to detain Julian Assange over a 2010 rape case, dashing the prosecutor's hopes of having him swiftly extradited from Britain. The Uppsala…

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Assange experience severe psychological abuse – UN expert

A U.N. expert said Julian Assange has experienced nine years of "severe abuse" and will urge the U.K. government to abandon plans to extradite the WikiLeaks founder to the U.S.…

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WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange misses scheduled court appearance, reportedly unwell

WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange missed a scheduled court appearance on Thursday because he is unwell, his lawyer said. The 47-year-old had been expected to appear from prison via video link…

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Sweden files request for Assange’s arrest over rape allegation

The Swedish prosecutor heading an investigation into a rape allegation against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Monday filed a request for his arrest. The warrant, if granted, would be the…

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Sweden reopens rape case against Assange

A Swedish prosecutor announced on Monday that Sweden will reopen a preliminary investigation into rape allegations against WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange. Sweden's prosecutors first ordered Assange’s arrest in 2010 after…

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UPDATED: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange arrested in London…US files charges

U.S. prosecutors announced that they had charged Julian Assange, founder of the WikiLeaks website, with conspiracy in trying to access a classified U.S. government computer with former U.S. Army intelligence…

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Assange to be expelled from Ecudaorian embassy

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is to be expelled from Ecuador’s London embassy within hours or days, according to a “high level” source quoted by WikiLeaks. In a tweet, WikiLeaks claims…

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Ecuador in 2017 gave Wikileaks founder Julian Assange

Ecuador in 2017 gave Wikileaks founder Julian Assange a diplomatic post in Russia but rescinded it after Britain refused to give him diplomatic immunity, according to an Ecuadorean government document…

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Julian Assange and Cambridge Analytica director met in February – The Guardian

The Guardian revealed that a Cambridge Analytica director apparently visited Julian Assange in February last year and told friends that the reason for the meeting was to discuss what happened during…

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Pamela Anderson speaks about her relation with Julian Assange

One might think that NETFLIX is thinking of creating a new series documenting the life of former BayWatch star Pamela Anderson or the controversial Julian Assange. If Netflix decides to…

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