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Montevideo, May 23rd 2025 - 10:50 UTC

Tag: WikiLeaks

  • Wednesday, October 2nd 2024 - 09:04 UTC

    Assange says he was free not because the system worked

    Journalism is not a crime, Assange insisted

    WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said Tuesday in his first public appearance after his release from the Belmarsh maximum security prison in the United Kingdom in late June that he was “free because I pled guilty to journalism.”

  • Wednesday, June 26th 2024 - 19:08 UTC

    Assange lands in Canberra after 14-year ordeal

    Assange, 52, deplaned from the executive jet in a dark suit, white shirt, and tie, and with his fist in the air

    WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange finally landed in his native Australia after completing a series of formalities with US authorities in the Mariana Islands. But it was his wife Stella who spoke to the press to celebrate his arrival after a 14-year ordeal which included a spell at Ecuador's Embassy in London plus a stay at the Belmarsh maximum security prison in the British capital. Assange was expected to appear in front of the media after arriving in Canberra on a private flight from Saipan.

  • Tuesday, June 25th 2024 - 10:32 UTC

    Assange released from London maximum security prison

    Assange was to appear before a US Federal Court in the Mariana Islands before being allowed to fly on to his native Australia

    WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been released from London's Maximum Security Belmarsh Prison after reaching a plea deal with US prosecutors whereby he agreed to a 5-year prison sentence for espionage which allowed for the time already served to be counted.

  • 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.

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