Julian Assange

Swedish prosecutors asked a court to detain Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to allow for his extradition to Sweden for questioning over rape allegations once he has served a 50-week sentence in the U.K. for skipping bail. Prosecutor Eva-Marie Persson argued…

Julian Assange, the Espionage Act and implications for free media

Julian Assange: Journalist, publisher, info warrior... spy?

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) Lawyers for former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning are renewing efforts to get her released from a northern Virginia jail. Mannings lawyers filed court papers Friday asking a federal judge to reconsider his decision to send Man…

Julian Assange shows symptoms of psychological torture, according to United Nations experts. Nils Melzer, a rapporteur on torture for the U.N. requested an appeal to the United Kingdom on Friday, recommending Assange should not be extradited to the U.S. beca…

Pamela Anderson is once again defending Julian Assange. In an op-ed for the Daily Beast published Thursday, Anderson, 51, writes that Assange has been made a “scapegoat” for President Donald Trump‘s election win and that the WikiLeaks founder is being unfair…

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is suffering the symptoms of psychological torture and should not be extradited to the U.S., a United Nations torture expert will tell the U.K. government on Friday. Nils Melzer, special rapporteur on torture, will present hi…

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Jailed Wikileaks publisher Julian Assange is reportedly "too ill" to even speak at a scheduled extradition hearing today. He is said to be "gravely ill" and even near death. If Assange is worth more dead than alive to the governments he has embarrassed by pub…

WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange missed a scheduled court appearance on Thursday because he is unwell, his lawyer said. The 47-year-old had been expected to appear from prison via video link at a brief extradition hearing at Westminster Magistrates' Court…