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If Julian Assange were a Chinese journalist and publisher, he’d have the Nobel Prize, be the centerpiece of Human Rights Day, and this week his portrait would’ve been planted atop President Joe Biden’s Democracy Summit. Assange’s name would’ve been the first on US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s list of …

The British High Court has overturned a ruling that blocked the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States, deciding that he can be sent to America, where he faces possible life in a prison sentence. Washington accuses Assange of 18 counts relating to WikiLeaks’ release of vast …

The partner of Julian Assange said on Monday a media report that the CIA had plotted to kill or kidnap the WikiLeaks founder was a game-changer in his fight against extradition from Britain to the United States. US authorities will this week begin their appeal against a British judge’s refusal …

Swedish prosecutors will re-open a 2010 rape case against Julian Assange, the country’s deputy director of prosecutions has announced. Eva-Marie Persson said at a press conference the inquiry, which was shelved in 2017 because Assange refused to leave the Ecuadorian embassy in London, would be restarted. The woman who claimed …

A court in Britain has handed down a 50-week jail sentence to Australian whistleblower and press freedom activist Julian Assange, saying he disrespected the UK judicial system and escaped his bail conditions by taking refuge in the Ecuadorian embassy for almost seven years. The Southwark Crown Court in the UK …

British police say they have arrested WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange inside the Ecuadorean embassy in London, where the whistleblower has been living since 2012. “Julian Assange, 47, has today, Thursday 11 April, been arrested by officers from the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) at the Embassy of Ecuador,” police said. Police …

Michael Cohen, Donald Trump’s ex-lawyer, is giving dramatic testimony before the House Oversight Committee and has told the congressional panel the president “is a racist, a conman and a cheat”. Cohen said: “I am ashamed that I chose to take part in concealing Mr. Trump’s illicit acts rather than listening …