Tag Archives: Julian Assange

• Assange faces US extradition hearing in London 14 June 2019 | Dmitry Zaks This post has no comments yet

  WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Friday faces his first British court hearing since the US submitted a formal extradition request on espionage charges that have upset defenders of freedom ...

• Assange suffering ‘psychological torture’: UN expert 1 June 2019 | Nina Larson This post has no comments yet

  Julian Assange has been subjected to drawn-out "psychological torture", a UN rights expert said Friday, accusing the United States, Britain, Ecuador and Sweden of "collective persecution" of ...

• Sweden reopens rape probe against Assange 14 May 2019 This post has no comments yet

  Swedish prosecutors said Monday they were reopening a 2010 rape investigation against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, hoping to bring him to justice. ...

• Julian Assange jailed for 50 weeks for breaking UK bail 1 May 2019 | Edouard Guihaire and Alice Ritchie This post has no comments yet

  WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was sentenced Wednesday to 50 weeks in jail for breaching a British court order seven years ago, when he took refuge in Ecuador's London embassy. ...

• Ecuador says hit by 40 million cyber attacks since Assange arrest 17 April 2019 This post has no comments yet

  Ecuador said on Monday it has suffered 40 million cyber attacks on the webpages of public institutions since stripping Wikileaks founder Julian Assange of political asylum. ...

• Julian Assange arrested in London after 7 years in Ecuador embassy 11 April 2019 | Guy Faulconbridge, Kate Holton and Costas Pitas This post has 3 comments

  WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was arrested by British police and carried out of the Ecuadorean embassy on Thursday after his South American hosts abruptly revoked his seven-year asylum. ...

• WikiLeaks’ Assange says Ecuador seeking to end his asylum 31 October 2018 | Alexandra Valencia This post has no comments yet

  WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said on Monday that Ecuador is seeking to end his asylum in its London embassy and hand him over to the United States. ...

• Ecuador stops Assange communicating from its London embassy 29 March 2018 | Jordi Miro and Santiago Piedra Silva This post has no comments yet

  Ecuador on Wednesday said it has stopped Julian Assange's ability to communicate to the outside world from its London embassy, where the Wikileaks founder has been holed up since 2012. ...

• Ecuador grants citizenship to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange 12 January 2018 This post has no comments yet

  Ecuador has granted citizenship to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who has been sheltering at its London embassy for five years to avoid arrest. ...

• Swedish prosecutors drop rape probe against WikiLeaks’s Assange 19 May 2017 | Ilgin Karlidag This post has no comments yet

  Swedish prosecutors on dropped a seven-year rape investigation targeting Julian Assange, a legal victory for the WikiLeaks founder who has been holed up in the Ecuadoran embassy in London. ...