Tag: Julian Assange

• 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.

• Monday, April 15th 2019 - 09:38 UTC

  Ecuadorean president claims Assange used the embassy in London as a “center for spying”

  

  Julian Assange used the Ecuadorian embassy in London as a “centre for spying”, the country's leader has said. Lenin Moreno also said no other nation had influenced the decision to revoke the WikiLeaks founder's asylum, which he said followed violations by Assange.

• Friday, April 12th 2019 - 12:09 UTC

  US accuses Assange of conspiracy to commit computer intrusion

  

  British police dragged WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange out of Ecuador’s embassy on Thursday after his seven-year asylum was revoked for his extradition to the United States for one of the biggest ever leaks of classified information.