Julian Assange

As WikiLeaks was riding to global fame a decade ago by publishing archives of leaked American military and diplomatic files, its founder, Julian Assange, liked to call his organization an “intelligence agency of the people.” The slogan conjured an ideal of gathering and disseminating information solely to improve public understanding…

news, latest-news, Julian Assange A year since Julian Assange's father last saw his son in London's maximum-security Belmarsh prison, he is bringing his fight for the WikiLeaks founder's freedom to the Parliament House forecourt. John Shipton, 77, said his trip to the national capital and appearance at Parliament House on…

Not only did Trump refuse to pardon him, Biden is now continuing to try to extradite him. But what of press freedom? Julian Assange in better days, 2014. (Chancellory of Ecuador/Flickr) Defenders of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange experienced a double disappointment in the early weeks of 2021. Although President Donald…

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The Biden administration has indicated that it will continue to press for the extradition of Julian Assange from the United Kingdom and prosecute the WikiLeaks founder in the United States, according to the New York Times. Driving the news: The Justice Department filed a brief on Thursday asking a British…

The US government has appealed a UK judge’s ruling against the extradition of the WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange, according to a justice department official. The appeal made clear that Joe Biden intends to have Assange stand trial on espionage- and hacking-related charges over WikiLeaks’ publication of hundreds of thousands of…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden's administration plans to continue to seek to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange from the United Kingdom to the United States to face hacking conspiracy charges, the U.S. Justice Department said. Justice Department spokesman Marc Raimondi on Tuesday said the U.S. government will continue to…

Human rights groups have urged the new US administration to drop its case against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.  It comes ahead of a Friday deadline for Washington to appeal against a court ruling that barred his extradition from Britain.  Twenty-four organisations including Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International USA and Reporters Without Borders…

Media freedom groups and supporters of Julian Assange have asked the Biden administration to drop the US’s pursuit of the WikiLeaks' founder, saying Donald Trump was opposed to the idea of a “free press”. In their first appeal to the US government since Joe Biden became president less than three…

Out with a whimper, and I suppose we should have seen it coming. Although the claims were always bold: “Drain the Swamp!” “Build the Wall!” “Lock Her Up!” The odds, unfortunately, were never good. Never before had an elected President been so opposed, not just by the elites of both…