Julian Assange

  • 17 Jun 2013

    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.

  • 3 Jun 2013

    Private Bradley Manning goes on trial more than three years after he was arrested in Iraq and charged with the biggest leak of classified information in US history.

  • 2 Jun 2013

    James Ball, a former employee at Wikileaks, says the company bears “some responsibility” for the trial of Private Bradley Manning, due to start on Monday, over the leaking of military secrets.

  • 2 Jun 2013

    The US army private, Bradley Manning – accused of being behind the biggest leak of military secrets in history – goes on trial. He allegedly passed on secret files to the website WikiLeaks.

  • 28 Feb 2013

    The US soldier accused of leaking thousands of secret documents to Wikileaks has for the first time admited the leak at a military hearing and pleaded guilty to some of the lesser charges he faces.

  • 24 Jan 2013

    WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange describes a Hollywood film about his organisation as a “massive propaganda attack” against the whistle-blowing website.

  • 20 Dec 2012

    Julian Assange marks six months in his gilded Knightsbridge cage with a Christmas address from the balcony of London’s Ecuadorian embassy.

  • 20 Dec 2012

    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.”

  • 29 Nov 2012

    Ecuador’s Ambassador to the UK Ana Alban says she intends to appeal to the Home Office for Julian Assange to be granted safe passage to medical services for treatment.

  • 22 Aug 2012

    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?

  • 19 Aug 2012

    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.

  • 18 Aug 2012

    The Organisation of American States jumps into the diplomatic row over Julian Assange and the inviolability of the Ecuadorian embassy as the WikiLeaks founder prepares to address the crowd on Sunday.

  • 17 Aug 2012

    Channel 4 News looks at the choices available to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange as the diplomatic impasse continues between Britain and Ecuador over his extradition to Sweden.

  • 16 Aug 2012

    The Foreign Office says it will extradite Julian Assange despite Ecuador’s decision to grant asylum to the WikiLeaks founder, after he took refuge in the country’s embassy in London.

  • 16 Aug 2012

    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.