Assange is being held at a British prison while fighting extradition to the United States on spying charges. His full court hearing is due to begin next week.
A lawyer for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange reportedly surfaces the allegation during a London hearing. The White House calls it a "complete fabrication."
In the latest twist, a lawyer for Julian Assange says the Trump administration offered to pardon the WikiLeaks founder if he agreed to say Russia wasn't involved in leaking Democratic National Committee emails.
White House denies claims that Trump administration offered to pardon Assange if he denied Russia leaked DNC emails.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange plans to say Trump offered him a pardon — the White House denies the claim.
U.S. prosecutors have charged the 48-year-old Australian computer hacker with espionage over WikiLeaks’ hacking of hundreds of thousands of confidential government documents. If found guilty,…
LONDON (AP) — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange plans to claim during an extradition hearing that the Trump administration offered him a pardon if he agreed to say Russia was not...
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been fighting extradition from London to the US, where he's been charged under the Espionage Act for publishing classified information. According to NBC News, Assange's lawyer, Jennifer Robinson, presented a statement on his behalf to a London court this week: Assange's lawyer, Jennifer Robinson, said she saw then-Rep. Dana Rohrabacher,…
Assange is being held at a British prison while fighting extradition to the United States on spying charges. His full court hearing is due to begin next week.
Lawyer Edward FItzgerald said former Republican congressman Dana Rohrabacher visited WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in London in August 2017.
Three years after taking sanctuary in Ecuador's embassy in London, Julian Assange has racked up quite the bill for British taxpayers.
The WikiLeaks founder and attorney Stella Moris began a relationship after Assange took refuge in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London in 2012. They have two sons together.
The Ecuadoran attorney general delivered a document agreeing to a request by the Swedish prosecutor to question Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks.
The Spanish government's debt rose as a percentage of its gross domestic product (GDP) to 114.1% in the third quarter of 2020, up from 110.2% in the second quarter, the Bank of Spain said on Friday.
Prosecutors questioned WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for a second day at the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where he has been holed up for four years, in an investigation into allegations that he committed rape in Sweden in 2010.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange complained of hearing imaginary voices and music while detained in a high-security British prison, a psychiatrist who has interviewed him told his extradition hearing on Tuesday.
The United Kingdom's Foreign Office said to solve the issue Assange would have to leave the Ecuadorian embassy and face justice.
A photograph taken on April 24, 2022, shows a damaged grave in a cemetery in the historic Ukrainian city of Odessa, which reportedly was hit a day earlier by a Russian missileKyiv (Ukraine) (AFP) - The United States' top diplomat and defence chief were in Kyiv Sunday, Ukraine's presidency said, maki...
A Swedish court has rejected a request to postpone a planned hearing to rule on the detention in absentia of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange as part of an ongoing investigation into alleged rape, a defence lawyer for Assange said on Tuesday
More than 60 doctors from around the world have expressed concern regarding the health of Julian Assange, writing in an open letter that he “could die” in a British maximum security facility before he faces his extradition hearing in February 2020.
Julian Assange has been given permission to marry his partner while in prison in the U.K.,
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who has been holed up in Ecuador's London embassy for six years, is considering an offer to appear before a U.S. Senate committee to discuss alleged Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election, his lawyer said on Thursday.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been granted permission to marry his partner, Stella Moris, in prison, British authorities say. Assange has been held in London's high-security Belmarsh Prison...
The Swedish prosecutor investigating a rape allegation against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said on Monday she had interviewed seven witnesses, including two not previously heard, but had yet to determine how to proceed in the case.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is not getting the time he needs with his legal team to discuss his fight against extradition to the United States, causing delays to the case, his lawyer told a British court on Monday.
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The group said that Julian Assange is “entitled to his freedom of movement and to compensation.”
The Swedish allegations, first issued in 2010, are aimed at blackening the WikiLeaks founder’s name and devising a mechanism to have him dragged off to the US.
Julian Assange has been found guilty of failing to surrender to authorities in Britain.
Judge Emma Arbuthnot denied a request by Assange’s lawyers to lift a British warrant that was issued after Assange jumped bail when Swedish authorities sought him for questioning about allege…
* Ecuador says concerned over WikiLeaks founder's safety
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been arbitrarily detained by Britain and Sweden since December 2010, and should be freed and compensated, a U.N. human rights panel says.
A potential UK arrest and US extradition still loom over the WikiLeaks founder after Sweden dropped its rape inquiry
Julian Assange holed up in Ecuador's London embassy in 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden to face questioning over sexual-assault allegations.
The Swedish allegations, first issued in 2010, are aimed at blackening the WikiLeaks founder’s name and devising a mechanism to have him dragged off to the US.
The ruling leaves Assange, 46, in a legal and diplomatic impasse, with no way out of the embassy where he has lived for almost six years, unless he decides to face the prospect of arrest by British police.
LONDON (AP) — A judge upheld a British arrest warrant for Julian Assange on Tuesday, saying the WikiLeaks founder should have the courage to come to court
A British judge is set to decide Tuesday whether to quash or uphold an arrest warrant for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who has spent more than five years evading the law inside Ecuador's London embassy.
Assange's representatives say he was forced to seek asylum because he fears a 'political prosecution' in the US
UK judge upholds arrest warrant for WikiLeaks founder
Ecuador granted political asylum to WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange on Thursday, a day after it said Britain had threatened to raid the Ecuadorean embassy in London to arrest the former hacker.
Assange is now in jail in the UK, where he is serving a sentence for skipping bail to avoid extradition to Sweden
British judge to rule on Assange bid to get warrant dropped
Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, has won his battle against extradition to Sweden, which wanted to question him about a rape allegation.
A British judge on Tuesday upheld a U.K. arrest warrant for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, leaving him still a wanted man in the country where he has spent more than five years inside the Ecuadorean Embassy.
More than 70 UK lawmakers are urging Home Secretary Sajid Javid to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to Sweden, where he awaits sexual misconduct charges.
Swedish prosecutors say they are reopening a rape case against Julian Assange, the founder of anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks, a month after he was removed from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London
The Latest on the British arrest warrant for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange (all times local): 2:40 p.m.
Lawyers had hoped U.K. judge would drop arrest warrant for the Australian, who has hidden in a London embassy for 5 years
The Latest on the arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in London (all times local):
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange lost one legal bid to have a UK arrest warrant against him quashed on Tuesday but immediately launched another, to have the British authorities halt any action against him on public interest grounds.
LONDON (AP) — A judge upheld a British arrest warrant for Julian Assange on Tuesday, saying the WikiLeaks founder should have the courage to come to court and face justice...
The judge’s ruling was a significant setback for Assange after 5½ years of evading authorities by living in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London.
The Latest on Swedish prosecutor ending investigation of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange (all times local): 4:45 p.m. Julian Assange says Sweden's decision to drop a rape inveatigation against him is "an important victory for me and for the U.N. human rights system."
WikiLeaks founder is accused of rape and indecency in Sweden, but says extradition would lead to him facing trial in the US
The UK foreign secretary brands as "ridiculous" a UN panel's ruling that Julian Assange be allowed to go free, but the Wikileaks founder demands the decision be respected.
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“Freedom of speech and freedom of the press is being defined by the treatment of Julian Assange.”
More on Wikileaks, Assange, and the UK Supreme Court ruling
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The morning after WikiLeaks began releasing its trove of confidential US diplomatic cables, Democracy Now! hosts a round-table about the possible impact of these leaks.
WikiLeaks' release of nearly 8,000 documents that purportedly reveal secrets about the CIA's tools for breaking into targeted computers, cellphones and even smart TVs has given rise to multiple theories about who stole the documents and for what reason.
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Pentagon officials looking into the leak of thousands of classified documents to an online whistle-blower already have at least one potential suspect in mind -- an Army intelligence analyst under suspicion in an earlier leak to the same website.
Why "anti-secrecy" activists only cause war and conflict, not peace.
MIAMI (AP) A Colombian businessman was carrying a letter from Venezuelan President...
Foreign minister reads letter from ex-NSA employee requesting protection against "persecution" in U.S., but won't say where he is
The SEP is the only political party in the election defending Julian Assange and US whistleblower Chelsea Manning and fighting to mobilise workers and youth to demand their immediate release from prison.
One of F. William Engdahl’s latest articles is titled “Wikileaks, a Big Dangerous US Government Con Job”. In this article, Engdahl implies that Wikileaks is a US government-run propaganda operation with an end goal of restricting freedoms on the internet. Here are some of the key excerpts from this article.
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President Trump and his frequent attacks on the press were raised Wednesday by witnesses testifying in defense of WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange during his extradition trial in London.
Court-martial of soldier who allegedly leaked classified documents continues, starting with Army investigator's testimony
Within two days of Manning’s release from jail, a GoFundMe campaign organized by her supporters raised more than enough to pay the punitive fines imposed on her for refusing to testify against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
WikiLeaks is not the one-off creation of a solitary genius, and with or without Julian Assange, it is not going away.
More than 70 killed in clashes in South Sudan, U.N. says; Iraq says Turkish drone killed 2 two senior Iraqi security officials.
The U.S. Army privateaccused of providing secret documents to the WikiLeaks websitepleaded guilty on Thursday to misusing classified material hefelt "should become public," but denied the top charge of aidingthe enemy.
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Assange has been wanted by the US since 2010 when WikiLeaks released nearly 4,00,000 documents called the Iraq War Logs from the US Department of Defense databases
Hardening on language policy at the expense of the Russian language is a significant reversal from Karimov’s tacit encouragement of pluralism.
Jason Leopold of Vice News uses an encyclopedic knowledge of the Freedom of Information Act to obtain tens of thousands of pages of government documents.
Specialist Bradley Manning is reportedly the source of the 2007 video of an American helicopter strike that killed several bystanders.
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange said Friday it is clear that President Obama would not have unveiled his new spying reforms had it not been for leaks by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden and other
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Afterwards, a University of Colombo student, declared: “I agree with the point made in this meeting that the fight for the freedom of Assange is so crucial for the defence of democratic rights internationally.”
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“The persecution of Assange is an attack on anyone who speaks out against the power and authority of the United States. It is a warning to every journalist: ‘Pull your head in. Shut up. Don’t question.’”
Britain has indicated that it will not let Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, leave, so he is likely to stay in Ecuador’s London embassy.
The Trotskyists in India are building support in Tamil Nadu and West Bengal for rallies to demand freedom for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and whistleblower Chelsea Manning.
A colourful cast of lawyers and activists have come to Snowden's aid.
The Moreno government’s negotiations to hand over Julian Assange to his persecutors are of a piece with the role played by all of the governments of Latin America’s “Pink Tide” and their pseudo-left satellites.
Home secretary opens way for court to consider whether Assange should be sent to US
The first day of the British court hearing yesterday to determine if WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange will be extradited to the United States left no doubt that what is taking place is a legal travesty that threatens both Assange’s life and fundamental democratic rights.
Donald Trump's since-suspended Twitter account was used to threaten a foreign leader according to a new report following an interview of Trump by Axios correspondent Barak Ravid."In May 2020, the U.S. was in the midst of the first wave of the pandemic, Black Lives Matter protests and a brutal electi...
Hairstylist Federic Fekkai's customers can get personal. “There are women who like to shock me by saying, ‘Oh, I thought about you this morning … in my shower,’” he says. But he can laugh because he knows they are referring to his namesake shampoo and conditioner. “We want people to be responding...
Pam Anderson says she adores Wikileaks founder Julian Assange and finds him "sexy."
Ecuador granted asylum to Julian Assange this week, but Britain says it still intends to arrest the WikiLeaks chief the moment he steps out of the Ecuadorian embassy in London and extradite him to Sweden for questioning about alleged sexual assaults. Weekend Edition Saturday host Scott Simon has one way he could get out — via diplomatic mail.
Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro, who has been out of the public eye for more than two months, is working on a book with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and is not at death's door, a pro-government blogger said on Wednesday.
If Julian Assange is indicted by the U.S. government for disseminating classified information, he'll have a difficult time fending off the vague but menacing Espionage Act.
LONDON (AP) WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is very likely to attempt to kill himself if he is sent to the United States to face espionage charges, a psychiatric expert...
“Citizens of a democratic nation should have the freedom to choose which political program suits them best.”
The Mexican president Andres Manual Lpez Obrador said Assange deserved to keep his freedom
In the US, Julian Assange will face criminal charges under the Espionage Act and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
There is great evil being perpetrated by Washington D.C. here and around the world. A persistent terrible hate for life, liberty and humanity arrived on little cat feet and has taken over our country. This did not begin with Trump, but sadly it also is not going to end with him either. Trump promised to drain the swamp, implying change, transparency and accountability. Instead he brought in neoconservative king-makers and warmongers, and allowed their influence to grow disproportionately, whil
How will history view the founder of WikiLeaks? Not the way he hopes.
Release of hundreds of thousands of US diplomatic cables "could have breached" Australia laws, attorney-general says.
A Spanish court has summoned Mike Pompeo in connection with a security firm alleged to have spied on Julian Assange in the Ecuadorian embassy.
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Unity4J, which campaigns against the persecution of the WikiLeaks founder, was given no reason for the suspension.
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