Tag: Julian Assange

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

  Julian Assange's Ecuadorean nationality revoked by a court

  

  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

  

  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

  

  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”'

  

  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

  

  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.

• Saturday, January 4th 2020 - 09:47 UTC

  Mexican president calls for the release of Julian Assange from prison in London

  

  Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Friday called for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to be released from prison in London, urging an end to what he described as his “torture” in detention.

• Saturday, September 28th 2019 - 09:25 UTC

  Spanish company working for the CIA spied on Assange inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London

  

  A Spanish private security firm, which is under investigation in Madrid, spied on Wikileaks founder Julian Assange on behalf of the CIA while he was inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London, El Pais daily reported Friday.

• Tuesday, July 16th 2019 - 10:26 UTC

  UK, Ecuador agree Assange not to be extradited where he could be executed

  

  Wikileaks founder Julian Assange will not be extradited to any country with capital punishment, Britain's Minister for the Americas and Europe, Alan Duncan announced Monday in Quito after a meeting with Ecuador's Foreign Minister José Valencia.

• Friday, June 21st 2019 - 11:30 UTC

  Assange friend, and alleged hacker, freed in Ecuador but cannot leave the country

  

  An Ecuadorean judge on Thursday ordered that a Swedish citizen and personal friend of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange be freed, two months after he was detained for alleged participation in a hacking attempt on the government.

• Thursday, June 13th 2019 - 08:47 UTC

  US formally requested the UK the extradition of Julian Assange

  

  The US Justice Department has formally asked Britain to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States to face charges that he conspired to hack US government computers and violated an espionage law, Britain has confirmed.