Showing 1 - 10 of 92
US says Assange will not face supermax jail in renewed extradition bid
AFP, Published on 27/10/2021
» LONDON: The United States sought to assure a British court Wednesday that Julian Assange would not be held at a federal supermax prison, as it appealed a decision to block his extradition on the grounds he is a serious suicide threat.
The battle to destroy the whistleblowers
Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 06/10/2021
» A long time ago now I was asked to do a television series about the world's intelligence services -- and I turned it down flat. My main reason was a feeling that there was less to the whole intelligence world than met the eye, and the subsequent 30 years have only served to confirm that judgement.
Assange case remains threat to investigative journalism: analysts
AFP, Published on 05/01/2021
» WASHINGTON: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange dodged a bullet Monday when a British judge refused to extradite him to the United States to face charges under an espionage law, but experts say his case remains an ominous threat to press freedom.
Assange stripped naked and handcuffed, lawyer tells court
AFP, Published on 25/02/2020
» LONDON - Julian Assange was stripped naked twice and handcuffed 11 times coming and going from court, the WikiLeaks founder's lawyer told his US extradition hearing in London on Tuesday.
Britain starts hearing US case for extraditing Assange
AFP, Published on 24/02/2020
» LONDON: Britain on Monday starts hearing Washington's extradition request for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in a test case of media freedoms in the digital age and the limits of US justice.
Sweden reopens rape probe against Assange
AFP, Published on 13/05/2019
» STOCKHOLM - Swedish prosecutors said Monday they were reopening a 2010 rape investigation against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, hoping to bring him to justice before the statute of limitations expires in August 2020.
Assange in London jail ahead of long legal fight
AFP, Published on 12/04/2019
» LONDON: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange woke up in a British jail on Friday at the start of a likely lengthy extradition battle after a dramatic end to his seven-year stay in Ecuador's London embassy.
Assange's arrest could be the end of WikiLeaks
AFP, Published on 12/04/2019
» WASHINGTON: Using cryptography and virtual drop boxes, Julian Assange's WikiLeaks created a revolutionary new model for media to lure massive digitized leaks from whistleblowers, exposing everything from US military secrets to wealthy tax-dodgers' illicit offshore accounts.
Assange arrested in London on US extradition request
AFP, Published on 11/04/2019
» LONDON - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's seven-year hideout in Ecuador's London embassy ended spectacularly Thursday when British police arrested him on an extradition request from the United States to face hacking charges.
Assange arrested after asylum lifted
Bloomberg News, Published on 11/04/2019
» LONDON: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was expelled from his hideout in Ecuador’s embassy in London Thursday and promptly arrested by London police amid concerns he faces extradition to the US.