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May 20, 2024 · WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange faces a key hearing Monday May 20, 2024 in his decade-and-a-half-long attempt to avoid extradition to the United States on espionage charges. (AP Photo/Tim Hales, File) Read More. 5 of 19 |.
May 20, 2024 · 20 May 2024. Getty Images. Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has won the right to appeal against extradition to the US, where he is accused of disclosing military secrets....
- 2006. Assange founds WikiLeaks in Australia. The group begins publishing sensitive or classified documents.
- 2010. In a series of posts, WikiLeaks released almost half a million documents relating to the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. August. Swedish prosecutors issue an arrest warrant for Assange based on one woman’s allegation of rape and another’s allegation of molestation.
- 2011. February. District court in Britain rules Assange should be extradited to Sweden.
- 2012. June. Assange enters Ecuadorian Embassy in central London, seeking asylum on June 19, after his bids to appeal the extradition ruling failed. Police set up round-the-clock guard to arrest him if he steps outside.
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The U.S. indictmentagainst Assange stems from WikiLeaks’ publication in 2010 and 2011 of hundreds of thousands of U.S. military reports about the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as American diplomatic communications. The material was originally leaked to WikiLeaks by former Army analyst Chelsea Manning. The indictment includes one count of co...
Separate from the Manning leaks, the U.S. government has been investigating WikiLeaks’ role in the Russian government’s efforts to interfere in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. WikiLeaks published a trove of embarrassing and politically damaging hacked emails from then-presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s chief of staff John Podesta and oth...
President Trump’s son Donald Trump Jr. and longtime political adviser Roger Stone also came under scrutiny for corresponding with WikiLeaks during the 2016 campaign. Donald Trump Jr. has disclosed messages showing he corresponded with WikiLeaks for about 10 months during the 2016 campaign. The messages show he stopped corresponding with the organiz...
A lawyer for Assange said he would fight extradition to the U.S., and that his arrest sets a dangerous precedent for the rights of journalists. Assange is set to appear in a London court May 2 via video-link from prison in relation to the extradition case.
Feb 20, 2024 · LONDON (AP) — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been fighting for more than a decade to avoid extradition to the United States to face charges related to his organization’s publication of a huge trove of classified documents.
- shui@ap.org
- February 21, 2024
- UK Reporter
Jan 3, 2021 · A judge in London on Monday rejected an American effort to have the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange extradited to the United States, where he faces charges of conspiring to hack government...
Mar 26, 2024 · The extradition order was initially denied by a British judge in 2021, who ruled that Mr. Assange was at risk of suicide if sent to a U.S. prison. Britain’s High Court later reversed...
