Julian Assange

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange can be extradited to face hacking and espionage charges in the US, the High Court ruled today. London’s High Court of Justice accepted diplomatic assurances from the US that it would take measures to mitigate Assange’s risk of suicide. The decision overturns an earlier ruling by…

J ulian Assange can be extradited to the US to face trial on espionage charges over the mass leak of classified and confidential military documents, senior British judges have ruled. His supporters say Assange is being prosecuted for journalistic activities, and argue the charges – brought under the presidency of…

Photo: Jack Taylor (Getty Images) A new report from Yahoo’s Michael Isikoff alleges that the US hasn’t been super helpful to Spain as it attempts to investigate whether a local security firm spied on Julian Assange at the behest of the CIA. The notorious hacktivist’s lawyers have accused Spanish security…

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange gestures to supporters outside the Ecuadorian embassy in London. (Frank Augstein, AP, file) WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been given permission to get married in a UK jail.He will marry Stella Moris, a former member of his legal team.Assange is wanted by the US for a…

Thursday 11 November 2021 9:14 pm WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been given permission to marry his partner Stella Moris in Belmarsh Prison in London, after months of campaigning. Assange, 50, had previously been blocked from getting married inside his high-security prison, where he has been held since April 2019.…

Express. Home of the Daily and Sunday Express. HOME News Showbiz & TV Sport Comment Finance Travel Entertainment Life & Style UK World Royal Politics Science Weather Nature Weird Sunday JULIAN Assange has been granted permission to get married in prison. Julian Assange claims he's 'slowly dying' in prison says…

This week lawyers for the U.S. government began a legal challenge to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange from the U.K. to face charges of violating the Espionage Act. Assange is wanted in the U.S. on 18 criminal charges after WikiLeaks published thousands of secret U.S. military and diplomatic documents concerning…

COMMENTARY If Assange goes to prison for exposing war crimes, it will mean the death of real national security reporting Protesters holding placards demanding Julian Assange is freed march, during a protest ahead of Julian Assange's extradition appeal on October 23, 2021 in London, England. Protesters marched from the BBC…

The CIA wanted revenge against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange after WikiLeaks published documents about the CIA’s surveillance tools, a court heard today. Lawyers for Assange told court judges that the Vault 7 leak – which disclosed the CIA’s hacking capabilities – provoked a desire for blood and vengeance from the…

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. (Frank Augstein, AP, File) The US government wants to place Julian Assange on trial for spying on charges that could jail him for up to 175 years.A lower court's ruling in January blocked the US's extradition request citing that Assange was at risk of suicide.Assange is…