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Montevideo, April 24th 2024 - 22:54 UTC

Tag: WikiLeaks

  • Wednesday, March 27th 2024 - 18:28 UTC

    Assange escapes extradition to US for now, pending assurances

    Assange was said to be in poor physical and mental health after over 12 years excluded from the outside world

    A UK Court decided on Tuesday that Wikileaks founder Julian Assange may not be extradited to face espionage charges in the United States, at least until assurances are received from Washington that the death penalty will not be sought. It was no legal victory for Assaange's supporters who claimed that the only acceptable outcome would be ”no extradition” at all. The British government signed an extradition order in June 2022, which Assange has appealed.

  • Tuesday, May 9th 2023 - 10:24 UTC

    Lula supports Assange's cause

    Lula also lambasted the media for not supporting their colleague

    During his recent visit to London, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva expressed his strong disapproval of the UK's treatment of Julian Assange. Lula criticized the UK for imprisoning the WikiLeaks founder for his professional activities as a journalist and called for his immediate release.

  • Friday, June 17th 2022 - 21:11 UTC

    UK Home Secretary okays Assange's extradition

    “I'm going to spend every waking hour fighting for Julian until he is free, until justice is served,” Assange's wife stressed

    British Home Secretary Priti Patel Friday signed the documents whereby the Australian founder of Wikileaks Julian Assange is to be extradited to the United States to be tried for divulging classified information revealing war crimes in Iran and Afghanistan.

  • Tuesday, March 15th 2022 - 09:00 UTC

    UK Supreme Court denies Assange's request, way clear now for extradition

    Britain's Supreme Court Monday turned down a request from Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to review his case. The decision has exhausted UK procedural alternatives and the way is now clear for the 50-year-old Australian national to be extradited to the United States.

  • Friday, November 12th 2021 - 20:10 UTC

    UK prison authorities allow Assange to marry mother of his kids

    “Julian and I now have permission to marry in Belmarsh prison,” Moris said on Twitter (Pic Youtube)

    WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been granted permission to get married by UK prison authorities, his fiancee announced Friday. The 50-year-old Australian national is in custody in Britain, pending a court decision on a request for his extradition from the United States.

  • Wednesday, July 28th 2021 - 07:48 UTC

    Julian Assange's Ecuadorean nationality revoked by a court

    Assange spent almost seven years at the Ecuadorean embassy in London under the status of political refugee

    An administrative court in Ecuador revoked the country's nationality of Wikileaks founder, Australian-born Julian Assange. The Monday 26 July ruling was notified to Assange's attorney Carlos Poveda and the Ecuadorean foreign ministry.

  • Tuesday, January 5th 2021 - 09:30 UTC

    Assange's extradition to US denied on mental health problems

    US authorities accused Assange of 18 offences relating to the release by WikiLeaks of vast troves of confidential military records and diplomatic cables

    A British judge ruled on Monday that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange should not be extradited to the United States to face criminal charges including breaking a spying law, saying his mental health problems meant he would be at risk of suicide.

  • Monday, April 13th 2020 - 09:44 UTC

    Assange fathered two children with one of his lawyers while in the Ecuador embassy

    The 48-year-old Australian is allegedly the dad of two boys - aged two and one - born to South African-born lawyer Stella Morris, the Mail on Sunday reported.

    Wiki Leaks founder Julian Assange fathered two children with one of his lawyers while holed up in Ecuador's embassy in London for much of the past decade, a report on Sunday said. The 48-year-old Australian is allegedly the dad of two boys - aged two and one - born to South African-born lawyer Stella Morris, the Mail on Sunday reported.

  • Friday, February 21st 2020 - 08:32 UTC

    European human rights chief against extraditing Assange: “chilling effect on press freedom”'

    Dunja Mijatovic, Europe's Human Rights Commissioner, said Assange's case raised questions about the protection of people who publish classified information in the public interest

    WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange should not be extradited to the United States because it would have a chilling effect on press freedom, a European human rights chief said on Thursday. Assange, 48, is in prison in London, where an extradition hearing begins next week. The US authorities want to try him on 18 counts including to hack government computers and violating an espionage law.

  • Thursday, February 20th 2020 - 07:20 UTC

    Assange said Trump offered to pardon him if he let Russia off Wikileaks disclosures

    Assange appeared by videolink from prison as lawyers discussed the management of his hearing next week to decide whether he should be extradited to US

    U.S. President Donald Trump offered to pardon WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange if he said that Russia had nothing to do with WikiLeaks’ publication of Democratic Party emails in 2016, a London court heard on Wednesday. Assange appeared by videolink from prison as lawyers discussed the management of his hearing next week to decide whether he should be extradited to the United States.

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