Julian Assange

LONDON (Reuters) - The full extradition hearing of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will go ahead in February 2020 after London judge Vanessa Baraitser declined a request by his lawyers to delay proceedings by three months. Assange, 48, faces 18 counts in t…

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange appeared in a London court on Monday for a hearing on whether he should be extradited to the United States to face spying charges. Assange, cleanly shaved, dressed in a navy suit and light blue jumper, raised his fist to supp…

LONDON (Reuters) - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange appeared in a London court on Monday for a hearing on whether he should be extradited to the United States to face spying charges. Assange, dressed in a navy suit and light blue jumper, raised his fist to …

LONDON (AP) The Latest on WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange (all times local): 10:35 a.m. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has appeared in court for a hearing on his extradition case. Assange raised a fist in a defiant gesture to acknowledge his supporters …

Pilger tweeted out a status update after visiting the WikiLeaks co-founder in Belmarsh Prison. “Denied the tools to prepare his defence against extradition to America, resilience endures,” he wrote, stating that Assange’s upcoming court hearing w…

Assange was due to be released on September 22 after serving a sentence for breaching bail conditions by seeking refuge in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London in 2012.  Also on rt.comCrushing a Whistleblower on a Wheel: The unrelenting witch-hunt of Julian Assa…

LONDON (Reuters) - WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange was remanded in custody on Friday after a brief hearing in a London court which will decide whether he should be extradited to the United States to face spying charges. Assange, 48, faces 18 counts in the…

The Nobel committee has once again sparked controversy by choosing Austrian author Peter Handke, who has been accused of being an apologist for Slobodan Milosevic, for the 2019 literature prize.  Born to a German-Slovenian family near Austria's then-border w…

Former hacktivist Jeremy Hammond, a one-time WikiLeaks source, who admitted to leaking stolen files from a private intelligence firm, was held in contempt on Thursday after allegedly refusing to testify before a federal grand jury in the Eastern District of V…

A Spanish security company was apparently enlisted by the Central Intelligence Agency to compile reports on journalists, attorneys, doctors, and any Russians or Americans who visited WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange while he was living in Ecuadors embassy in …