Julian Assange

Judge José de la Mata of Spains High Court, the Audiencia Nacional, had been facing a good deal of stonewalling on the part of his British colleagues. He is overseeing an investigation into the surveillance activities of a Spanish security firm aimed at WikiL…

Permanent Record, by Edward Snowden (Metropolitan Books, 352 pp., $30) Edward Snowden, the world famous former civilian contractor at the National Security Agency, was widely celebrated as a whistleblower because, before defecting to Russia, he shared with j…

The ongoing proceedings against Australian citizen Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, presently held in Belmarsh Prison near London, display a grave erosion of time-honoured principles of human rights, the rule of law, and the democratic freedom to gather …

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Australian citizen and journalist Julian Assange is currently detained in high security prison as he awaits a case from the US government to extradite him for the release of sensitive material. He spent the last 7-years unable to leave the Ecuadorian embassy …

Hundreds packed the St Pancras New Church in Euston Thursday night for a meeting demanding freedom for imprisoned WikiLeaks founder and journalist Julian Assange. The largest meeting held in London to date reflects growing opposition to plans by the US gover…

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The WikiLeaks co-founder has repeatedly insisted that his private life and conversations in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London were invaded. His suspicions have now been backed up by Spanish prosecutors. As reports by German and US outlets suggest, Assanges cel…

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Assange is currently held at a top security UK prison pending a hearing on extradition to the US.  An American court wants him on espionage charges that may effectively result in imprisonment for life. Assange’s case is one of many in which Washington puts pr…