Julian Assange

Supporters of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange take part in a 'Night Carnival for Assange' march in London - Copyright AFP Bertrand GUAY Several hundred supporters of jailed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Saturday launched a carnival-themed march through central London calling for his release as he risks extradition to the…

Pamela Anderson’s unlikely relationship with Julian Assange isn’t just surface level, with the actress and author expressing a profound connection with the WikiLeaks founder built on mutual respect in her memoir Love, Pamela. The Baywatch actress detailed in her newly released book, out Tuesday (coinciding with the release of her…

While the Conservative-led U.K. government seems poised to extradite Julian Assange, a global movement has grown demanding his release. The Belmarsh Tribunal for Julian Assange at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. on January 20, 2023. Credit: Pamela Drew / Flickr “The first casualty when war comes is truth,”…

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Keeping the lights on shouldn’t be a problemJohn Kehoe’s “Carbon’s new era” (January 14-15) succinctly describes the now much more hopeful picture of Australia’s response to climate change. However, it ends: “Unless there are incredible technology breakthroughs deployable at scale, full decarbonisation while keeping the lights on, prosperity rising and…

The former prime minister was humiliated by material the Wikileaks founder published in 2010, but still opposes his extradition to the US. Julian Assange's father John Shipton and brother Gabriel Shipton (right) (Image: AAP/EPA/Mario Guzman) Julian Assange’s family is feeling cautiously optimistic about the appointment of Kevin Rudd a Australia’s…

U.S. President Joe Biden is pressing ahead with a controversial criminal case against Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks, a whistleblower website. Assange has been languishing for close to four years in the U.K.’s harsh Belmarsh Prison while appealing extradition to the United States, where he faces espionage and computer…

The Biden administration has been saying all the right things lately about respecting a free and vigorous press, after four years of relentless media-bashing and legal assaults under Donald Trump. The attorney general, Merrick Garland, has even put in place expanded protections for journalists this fall, saying that “a free…

Key PointsJulian Assange has submitted an appeal to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) over his extradition to the US. The UK has given the go-ahead for his extradition but he has launched an appeal at London's High Court. Now, his legal team have also launched a case against…

Media unions, independent journalists, and civil libertarians have for three years argued that Julian Assange must not be prosecuted by the US Department of Justice for obtaining and publishing classified materials that revealed the extent of US wrongdoing in Afghanistan and Iraq. Now, as the WikiLeaks founder fights extradition from…