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25 Jun 2024

Wikileaks website founder Julian Assange walks free after plea deal with US

20 Apr 2022

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to be extradited to US, orders UK court

Julian Assange's lawyers have four weeks to make submissions to UK Home Secretary Assange can also seek to appeal to the High Court Supporters and lawyers for Assange argue that he was acting as a journalist

23 Mar 2022

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to get married in high-security prison

Julian Assange will marry his long-term partner Stella Moris inside a high-security prison The prison has refused permission for journalists or a photographer to be present Stella Moris said she was marrying the "love of her life"

16 Sep 2020

'WikiLeaks acted in public interest'

The man who leaked the "Pentagon Papers" about the Vietnam War defended Julian Assange at his London extradition hearing on Wednesday, saying WikiLeaks had acted in the public interest and warning Assange would not get a fair trial in the United States.

09 Sep 2020

Donald Trump targeting Julian Assange as 'political enemy', UK court told

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is wanted by the US because he is a "political enemy" of President Donald Trump, his London extradition hearing was told. Australian-born Assange, 49, is fighting against being sent to the US, where he is charged with conspiring to hack government computers. He is also charged with violating an espionage law over the release of confidential cables by WikiLeaks in 2010-2011.

07 Sep 2020

UK judge rejects WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange bid to delay US extradition

The US authorities accuse Australian-born Assange, 49, of conspiring to hack government computers and of violating an espionage law in connection with the release of confidential cables by WikiLeaks in 2010-2011. Assange, clean-shaven and wearing a suit at Monday`s hearing, formally declined to be extradited. He has been presented with a new, wider superseding indictment issued by US authorities in June, which contains 18 alleged offences of conspiring to hack government computers and espionage. The judge rejected his lawyers` application for the case to be adjourned until January to allow them more time to consider new US accusations.

27 Jul 2020

Spanish court hears testimony on whether Wikileaks founder Assange was spied

Assange, whose lawyers filed a complaint at the court to trigger the investigation, is in a British prison after being removed from the embassy last year. The court is conducting an investigation, begun last year, before deciding whether there is evidence of wrongdoing that warrants a trial.

25 Mar 2020

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange denied bail amid coronavirus COVID-19 scare

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who is fighting extradition from Britain to the United States, was denied bail on Wednesday (March 25, 2020) after his lawyers said he should be released because he was at high risk of contracting the coronavirus in prison.

18 Feb 2020

Jailed Wikileaks founder Julian Assange's health improving: Reports

Assange was moved from solitary confinement in the medical wing to a different part of the prison with 40 other inmates after his legal team and prisoners complained that his treatment was unfair, Hrafnsson said.

23 Jan 2020

Extradition hearing for WikiLeaks' Julian Assange to be split into two parts

Following applications from Assange’s legal team and lawyers representing the United States, Judge Vanessa Baraitser at Westminster Magistrates` Court agreed that his extradition hearing would start on Feb. 24 for a week, with the remaining three weeks taking place from May 18.

13 Jan 2020

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange needs time to speak to lawyer, court told

The United States wants Wikileaks founder Julian Assange extradited to face 18 charges including conspiring to hack government computers and violating an espionage law.

26 Nov 2019

Assange 'could die in prison' without urgent medical treatment, warn doctors

The letter addressed to UK Home Secretary Priti Patel and Shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott, was distributed by WikiLeaks on Monday, the Hill reported. Assange is currently serving a 50 weeks imprisonment sentence in UK`s Belmarsh prison for skipping bail to avoid being sent to Sweden over sexual assault allegations.

19 Nov 2019

Sweden drops Wikileaks founder Julian Assange rape probe after nearly 10 years

A Swedish prosecutor dropped a rape investigation against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, ending the near decade-old case that had sent the anti-secrecy campaigner into hiding in London`s Ecuadorian embassy to avoid extradition.

25 Oct 2019

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The story revolves around Julian Assange and his colleague Daniel Domscheit-Berg as they collaborate to overwatch the society.

14 Jun 2019

UK court sets Julian Assange's US extradition hearing for February 2020

Assange, 47, faces 18 counts in the US including conspiring to hack government computers and violating an espionage law.

31 May 2019

WikiLeaks' Assange suffering from 'psychological torture': UN rights expert

Assange was too ill on Thursday to appear via video link from a British prison in a hearing on an extradition request from the United States, his lawyer Gareth Peirce told Reuters.

20 May 2019

Swedish prosecutor requests Assange's detention over rape allegation

It was begun in 2010 but dropped in 2017 after WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange took refuge in the Ecuadorean embassy in London.

02 May 2019

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange says he does not want to be extradited to US

The case was adjourned until May 30 for a procedural hearing with a more substantial hearing planned for June 12

01 May 2019

Wikileaks founder Assange sentenced to 50 weeks in jail for skipping bail

Judge Deborah Taylor said Assange had exploited his privileged position to flout the law and express his disdain for British justice.

12 Apr 2019

WikiLeaks: After years of giving refuge, Ecuador suspends Assange's cit

Ecuador has suspended Julian Assange`s citizenship and accused him and people connected to his WikiLeaks group of collaborating in attempts to destabilise the Andean nation`s government, after years of offering him shelter.

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