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Apr 11, 2023 · April 11, 2023, marks four years since his brutal arrest in England in 2019. We recap what has happened during the past four years and how you can help free Assange and protect your right...
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- Why Assange Was Initially Arrested
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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.
- 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.
May 23, 2019 · A federal grand jury returned an 18-count superseding indictment today charging Julian P. Assange, 47, the founder of WikiLeaks, with offenses that relate to Assange’s alleged role in one of the largest compromises of classified information in the history of the United States. Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers, U.S. Attorney G. Zachary Terwilliger for the ...
Apr 11, 2019 · The WikiLeaks founder has been arrested for skipping bail in 2012 and also faces computer hacking charges in the US. Assange arriving at Westminster Magistrates' Court on the day of his...
