Julian Assange

The Australian Parliament has apologised and admitted security officers made a mistake when they seized a bag of books from Julian Assange’s family during a visit to MPs. Crikey can reveal a top Parliament official wrote to Assange’s father John Shipton this week to extend his “sincere apologies” for the…

It was the largest data leak in US military history, sending shockwaves across the world and propelling Chelsea Manning and Julian Assange to global prominence. We speak to Chelsea Manning, the former army intelligence officer who leaked hundreds of thousands of classified documents to Wikileaks in 2010. Read More

WASHINGTON — Merrick Garland and those who work in the Department of Justice are the puppets, not the puppet masters. They are the façade, the fiction, that the longstanding persecution of Julian Assange has something to do with justice. Like the High Court in London, they carry out an elaborate judicial…

October 09, 2022 - 5:00AM REUTERS Supporters of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange formed a human chain outside Britain's parliament on Saturday (October 8) to demand an end to an attempt by the United States to have him extradited to face criminal charges. Read More

LONDON, Oct 8 (Reuters) - Supporters of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange formed a human chain outside Britain's parliament on Saturday to demand an end to an attempt by the United States to have him extradited to face criminal charges. Hundreds of protesters, including Jeremy Corbyn, the former leader of Britain's…

The morale and energy of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange – held in jail for three-and-a- half years – has been greatly boosted by plans for a human chain to encircle Britain’s parliament, his wife has said. Several thousand supporters of Asange, 51, have signed up to form the chain in…

In April of 2020, during the first covid lockdowns, I spoke out about my personal experience to a journalist for the first time . In sharing my name, face, and story as a survivor of human trafficking, I became a public survivor. That isn’t a decision made lightly, as it…

JULIAN ASSANGE’S BROTHER hopes an award given to the WikiLeaks founder by Mexico is an important step in the campaign to free him. Gabriel Shipton accepted the so-called ‘keys to Mexico City’ on behalf of his brother amid increasing efforts to persuade authorities in the UK, US and Australia to…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — This week the objective was to insert mention of Julian Assange into a meeting between Mexico’s president and the United States’ top diplomat. Next week, it will be to have Australia’s prime minister bring it up with the U.S. president at Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral. The…

On Saturday, the human rights chief at the United Nations (UN), Michelle Bachelet, said that the potential extradition of whistleblower Julian Assange raises concerns for the rights of future whistleblowers and investigative journalists. Meanwhile, cryptocurrency supporters have continued to donate to Assange and his legal battle as Wikileaks has amassed…