Julian Assange

LONDON (Sputnik) - At the hearing, District Judge Vanessa Baraitser ruled that the next one would take place on 23 January and that Assange would take part via video conference.WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has appeared in person in the Westminster Magistrates' Court in London, where the hearing on his extradition…

LONDON -- WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange made a brief court appearance Monday in his bid to prevent extradition to the United States to face serious espionage charges. He and his lawyers complained they weren't being given enough time to meet to plan the…

Home Secretary Priti Patel filed a formal extradition request on Friday for Anne Sacoolas, who struck 19-year-old Harry Dunn with her car last August while driving on the wrong side of the road near a joint US-UK military base in Northamptonshire. Dunn, who w…

On this week’s “Dissenter Weekly Update,” host and Shadowproof editor Kevin Gosztola discusses efforts by unionized employees from the Environmental Protection Agency to obtain whistleblower protections, files posted by a Cambridge Analytica whistleblower exp…

United Nations special rapporteur on torture Nils Melzer has written to governments to press them to investigate properly evidence that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been subjected to psychological torture. On December 31 Mr Melzer shared on Twitter a…

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ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) A United Nations official says the continued incarceration of former intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning for her refusal to testify to a grand jury amounts to torture. Nils Melzer, the U.N.’s special rapporteur on torture, released the …

The government of the United Kingdom informed United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture Nils Melzer that they reject any allegation that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been subjected to torture in any form as a result of actions by the U.K. governmen…

The United Nations special rapporteur on torture has been pressing the UK, US, Swedish, and Ecuadorian governments to properly investigate and address expert evidence showing that the WikiLeaks publisher has been subject psychological torture.Nils Melzer, the…

A US grand jury can compel anyone to testify and scarcely refuses to grant indictments brought before it. However, Chelsea Manning and Jeremy Hammond, jailed for refusing to help a grand jury investigate Julian Assange, follow a long tradition of dissidents f…