Julian Assange

Two cases a world-renowned one in London and a lesser-known one in San Francisco are ramping up legal pressure on the practices of journalists and the protections of journalism in public interest and national security matters. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange…

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Julian Assange is being slowly murdered by Her Majestys Prison Service at Belmarsh prison in the south-east of London. The prison is notorious for holding people who have never been charged with a crime indefinitely. It is also called the British version of G…

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Embattled WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will escape further charges in the US — including for the 2017 leak of the CIAs cyber-snooping tools, according to a new report. The hacker, already in prison in Britain and facing espionage charges in the US, was w…

A Swedish court has ruled against detaining WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange or seeking his extradition over an allegation of rape. The Swedish prosecutor said she would still seek a European Investigation Order so that she could question Assange. The count…

Media captionSwedish prosecutor reopened a rape investigation after Assange's arrest A Swedish judge has rejected a request to detain Julian Assange in absentia, complicating hopes to extradite him from the UK. Prosecutors said Assange had not co-operated w…

he ruling was handed down Monday by a judge in court in Uppsala, north of Stockholm. Swedish prosecutors reopened the rape case earlier this month, soon after Assange was jailed for skipping a 2012 bail hearing. Assange requested Monday’s hearing be postpone…