Julian assange

The 48-year-old Australian is still fighting a US bid to extradite him from Britain on charges filed under the Espionage Act that could see him given a sentence of up to 175 years in a US prison. read more

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Kristinn Hrafnsson, WikiLeaks editor-in-chief, said in a tweet that the focus should now move onto the “threat” that Julian Assange has been “warning about for years: the belligerent prosecution of the United States and the threat it poses to the First... read more

Stone was indicted in January as part of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian electoral tampering. read more

Independent UN rights expert Nils Melzer had previously warned Julian Assange was being subjected to drawn-out “psychological torture”. read more

The 48-year-old Australian is fighting a United States bid to extradite him on charges filed under the US Espionage Act, and sat in the witness box as a London court decided the timetable of his full hearing, due to begin in February. read more

The Australian Prime Minister’s office sent confidential talking points to the media by mistake, instead of sending the document to its own coalition’s members of parliament (MPs). read more

Certifying the request is the first stage of the extradition process, which will now move to the Westminster Magistrates Court. read more

The ruling by the Uppsala District Court on Monday is a setback for prosecutors who were hoping to issue a European Arrest Warrant for Assange and request his extradition from the United Kingdom to Sweden. read more

The UN special rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment also warned that if London agrees to an extradition request from Washington, Assange risked the death penalty. read more

The United States is seeking the extradition of Assange, 47, who was dragged from the Ecuadorean embassy in London on April 11. He faces a total of 18 U.S. criminal counts and decades in prison if convicted. read more

The charges supersede an earlier indictment obtained by the US attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia in April charging Assange with computer hacking, which formed the basis for an extradition request from the US that led to his arrest in the... read more

A new indictment alleges that Assange actively conspired with Manning to steal the hundreds of thousands of classified files “with reason to believe that the information was to be used to the injury of the United States or the advantage of a foreign... read more

The development sets up a possible future tug-of-war between Sweden and the United States over any extradition of Assange from Britain as Sweden requests detention for him. read more

Swedish prosecutors say they are reopening a rape case against Julian Assange. read more