LONDON — Swedish prosecutors on Tuesday announced that they were dropping an investigation into a 2010 rape allegation against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. The decision was a victory for Assange, who has long maintained the sexual encounter was consensual and that he was innocent of the charges. But the Swedish …
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Sweden reopened an investigation into a rape allegation against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Monday and will seek his extradition from Britain, potentially delaying efforts by the United States to bring him to its courts to face trial over a huge release of secret documents. FILE PHOTO: …
Julian Assange has been sentenced to 50 weeks in prison by a British judge. The controversial founder of WikiLeaks was arrested in April after being pushed out of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, where he had been living since 2012, avoiding an international arrest warrant. Judge Deborah Taylor said Assange’s …
The WikiLeaks co-founder is accused of hacking, not leaking, and that is a serious crime When julian assange was dragged out of Ecuador’s embassy and into a London courtroom on April 11th, you could be forgiven for thinking that it was his life’s work, moral character and personal hygiene in the …
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The arrest of the WikiLeaks founder amplifies an important free-speech conversation. The arrest of Julian Assange presages a free-speech debate that we’ve been avoiding for the seven years he was living in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London: Can Assange be lawfully prosecuted for somehow facilitating illegal theft of classified information? Or is …
The secrets came directly from the phones of President Lenín Moreno of Ecuador: intimate pictures of him and his family on vacation, text messages from his wife, even a photograph of the president himself in a posh bedroom, eating a lobster in bed. The material, published last month on an …
For almost seven years, Ecuador’s government weighed the risks and rewards of providing a haven to Julian Assange at the country’s embassy in London, a diplomatic high-wire act that put the small South American nation at odds with one of its most important partners. By Thursday, Ecuadoran officials eager to …
LONDON — Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder who released reams of secret documents that embarrassed the United States government, was arrested by the British police on Thursday at the Ecuadorean Embassy in London, where he had lived since 2012, after Ecuador withdrew the asylum it had granted him. President Lenín …
QUITO (Reuters) – President Lenin Moreno of Ecuador told radio stations on Tuesday that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has “repeatedly violated” the terms of his asylum in the Andean nation’s London embassy, where he has lived for nearly seven years. FILE PHOTO: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is seen on the …
The justifications for sealing a case don’t seem to fit the WikiLeaks founder. The word-processing error that unintentionally revealed the Justice Department’s sealed charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is fascinating, not least because analogous mistakes can be found in texts going all the way back to the Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh. …
QUITO (Reuters) – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has filed a lawsuit in Ecuador against new terms of asylum in the Andean country’s London embassy that require him to pay for medical bills and phone calls and clean up after his pet cat, his lawyer said on Friday. Ecuador this month …