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The home secretary has approved the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States. Mr Assange’s legal team have said they will challenge Priti Patel’s decision and have two weeks to mount an appeal. The US has sought to prosecute him for more than a decade after he published huge numbers of leaked…
Julian Assange can be extradited to the United States, according to a new legal ruling.
The Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is in custody tonight after being arrested for allegedly breaching his bail conditions.
He promised to hand himself in if Chelsea Manning was released. But despite President Obama’s surprise announcement, lawyers for the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange say at the moment he’s going nowhere.
Time runs out for Swedish prosecutors to investigate some of the allegations against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. But he is not expected to leave the Ecuadorean embassy any time soon.
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has had his request for asylum in France rejected according to President Francois Hollande’s office.
After two years of confinement inside the Ecuadorian embassy, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange calls a press conference and says he will leave “soon” – without giving any further details.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange – hiding for two years in the Ecuadorian embassy – is in “a prison cell with internet access” and “yearns to walk in the fresh air,” says a close friend.
Julian Assange says Edward Snowden is “healthy and safe” hours after the surveillance whistleblower did not turn up for a flight he was expected to catch to Cuba.
The diplomatic stand-off over Julian Assange shows no sign of abating, as the Ecuadorian foreign minister says the WikiLeaks founder is prepared to stay in Ecuador’s London embassy for five years.
Speaking from a balcony at the Ecuadorian embassy, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange tells a crowd of supporters “we have won against the immoral blockade in the courts.”
Undermining the British government’s position in the diplomatic stand-off over Julian Assange, the MP George Galloway implied our courts have done something “unprecedented” in order to comply with the Swedish authorities. Setting aside the diplomatic impasse which now finds Mr Assange holed up at the Equadorian embassy, is this a first for Britain? Are we really extraditing someone simply for questioning?
The WikiLeaks founder calls for the US to end its ‘war on whistleblowers’ but gives no hint as to how his extradition deadlock will be resolved.
Jon Snow
Few journalists would deny that WikiLeaks has proved a force for freedom of information. Many US legislators have argued that that freedom has come at a terrible cost to US national security.
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is granted asylum by Ecuador as the country claims the Wikileaks founder will not be granted a fair trial on sexual assault charges.
