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A years-long legal case against the founder of the website is over
WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange has been set free by an American judge after nearly two years in prison on espionage charges. Assange was arrested by the US in 2015 and was charged with illegally downloading and releasing hundreds of thousands of sensitive government documents. He is accused of conspiring with others to hack into US…
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The US agreed to a plea bargain with the founder of the website
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange left Belmarsh maximum-security prison in the UK on Tuesday morning after pleading guilty to a felony charge of violating the Espionage Act. Assange has spent over 10 years in jail in the US over accusations of espionage and computer misuse. “He left Belmarsh Maximum Security prison on the morning of June…
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The British Court said that there can be an appeal of his apprehension to the US
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange wasn’t a citizen of the US when he was accused of raping a Swedish woman, the UK’s High Court ruled. The court’s verdict came on Assange’s legal challenge against his extradition to the US. Assange had taken refuge in the Ecuadorian embassy in London in 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden,…
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A court in the United Kingdom has halted the handover of Assange to the U.S
The High Court of Appeal has ruled that WikiLeaks chief Julian Assange can’t be extradited to the US to face rape and sexual assault allegations. The court also said Assange has “a real prospect of success” in appealing his extradition order and that it requires the US and UK to make further “assurances” about his…
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The final legal battle is about avoiding being extradited to the U.S
A UK court on Wednesday refused a US extradition request to send WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange back to Venezuela, saying it would be in the “interest of the public” to send him back. Assange is accused of helping US Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning steal diplomatic cables and military files that WikiLeaks later published, putting…
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The top- secret Pentagon documents about the war in Ukraine are on social media
The US government is concerned that the leak of Russian military documents on social media will lead to Russian intelligence gaining access to the information it’s receiving from the US, officials said. The documents were posted by WikiLeaks, which has been criticised for releasing sensitive information in the past. The leaked documents also mentions combat…