Julian Assange

Key PointsUS ambassador to Australia Caroline Kennedy says the case of Julian Assange has been raised at the highest level. The US is seeking to extradite Julian Assange over the 2010 leak of files on the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. He is being held in Belmarsh prison in London as…

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis met Friday with imprisoned WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s wife Stella, who said the pope’s gesture in receiving her was evidence of his “ongoing show of support for our family’s plight” and concern over her husband’s suffering. In an interview with The Associated Press after…

CultureJune 27, 2023One has boasted of espionage. The other revealed massive government wrongdoing. So why is the whistleblower in jail? June 27, 2023 The lopsided scales of the American justice system were on vivid display in England last weekend. In London’s His Majesty’s Prison Belmarsh—a fortress-like maximum security prison encircled…

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Key PointsJulian Assange's legal battle to prevent extradition to the US from the UK has entered a final stage. The legal team for the Australian has until Tuesday to file a renewed application to appeal to the UK High Court. Assange's brother says he has concerns for the health and…

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On Wednesday, June 7 at 19:30 GMT: It’s been over four years since Julian Assange was forcibly removed from the Ecuadorian embassy and placed in a high security prison in the UK, where he is battling extradition to the United States. The Wikileaks co-founder is wanted on 17 charges of espionage…

Key PointsJulian Assange’s wife Stella Assange says the federal government "can secure" her husband's release.She said Mr Assange's life is "in the hands of the Australian government".Ms Assange is hopeful the Australian PM raised her husband's situation with the US president when in Japan.Julian Assange's release from prison has never…

A cross-party delegation of Australian lawmakers said on Tuesday they had met US Ambassador Caroline Kennedy urging her to help drop the pending extradition case against WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange and allow him to return to Australia. The “Bring Julian Assange Home Parliamentary Group” said it had informed the US…

After attending the coronation of King Charles III in London, Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva denounced the lack of concerted efforts to free WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who has spent four years in Britain’s Belmarsh Prison. “It is an embarrassment that a journalist who denounced trickery by one…