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Montevideo, June 6th 2023 - 19:18 UTC

Tag: Julian Assange

  • 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.

  • Tuesday, October 11th 2022 - 09:55 UTC

    Assange isolated inside prison after testing positive for COVID-19

    Assange's health has deteriorated considerably since he has been housed at Belmarsh prison

    Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, housed at Belmarsh prison in the UK awaiting extradition to the United States, has been reported to have tested positive for COVID-19 while his wife harbors fears over his well-being.

  • Monday, September 12th 2022 - 09:58 UTC

    Assange supporters stage demonstrations in Mexico City

    AMLO has offered political asylum to Assange but he is uunder arrest in Britain pending extradition to the US to stand trial for espionage

    Relatives and supporters of Julian Assange's gathered Sunday in fron of the US Embassy in Mexico City to protest against the impending extradition of the Wikileaks founder to the United States to face espionage charges, on the wake of Secretary of State Antony Blinken's arrival.

  • 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.

  • Tuesday, January 25th 2022 - 09:24 UTC

    Assange may appeal his extradition before the UK's Supreme Court

    The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), Amnesty International and Reporters Without Borders (RSF) welcomed the possibility of an appeal

    British magistrates Ian Burnett and Tim Holroyde Monday ruled there was a legal technicality in Julian Assange's case worth reviewing by the country's highest court and therefore cleared the way for the latter's extradition to the United States to be appealed against.

  • Sunday, December 12th 2021 - 20:06 UTC

    Assange's health compromised, wife says

    Washington is waging “a war of exhaustion,” Moris said

    WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's wife Stella Moris confirmed her husband had suffered a mild brain stroke during a virtual court appearance on October 27 from London's Belmarsh maximum-security prison, the British outlet Daily Mail reported.

  • Saturday, December 11th 2021 - 08:53 UTC

    British court now says Assange may be extradited to the US

    Assange's wife said Friday’s ruling was a “grave miscarriage of justice”

    A British court has ruled in favor of extraditing Julian Assange to the United States after finding the founder of WikiLeaks will be treated fairly while facing espionage charges for divulging classified documents.

  • 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.

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