A federal grand jury returned 17 additional charges Thursday against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for his alleged complicity in former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning’s leak of classified U.S. military documents, the Justice Department announced.
Read moreSwedish authorities on Monday issued a request for a detention order against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who is jailed in Britain, a Swedish prosecutor said.
Read moreSwedish prosecutors said Monday they are reopening a rape case against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, a month after he was removed from the Ecuadorean Embassy in London. They said they will seek his extradition after he has served his 50-week prison term in Britain for jumping bail.
Read moreWikiLeaks founder Julian Assange told a London court on Thursday that he wouldn’t agree to be extradited to the United States, where he is accused of conspiring to hack into a Pentagon computer.
Read moreA British judge sentenced WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Wednesday to 50 weeks in prison for skipping bail seven years ago and holing up in the Ecuadorean Embassy.
Read moreNot a word of substance was withheld from the U.S. indictment last week of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Federal prosecutors released a 26-page affidavit from an FBI agent almost in its entirety shortly thereafter.
Read moreAs a battle over the expected extradition of Julian Assange heats up in the United Kingdom, a newly unsealed U.S. court filing details how the WikiLeaks founder tried to cover his tracks.
Read moreBritish lawmakers are heaping pressure on the government to make sure that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange faces Swedish justice if prosecutors there reopen a rape investigation against him.
Read moreIt was a far cry from “I love WikiLeaks!” President Trump declared that “I know nothing about WikiLeaks” after its disheveled founder Julian Assange was hauled out of the Ecuadorean Embassy in London to face charges, a stark contrast to how candidate Trump showered praise on Assange’s hacking organization night after night during the final weeks of the 2016 presidential campaign.
Read moreThe leader of Britain’s opposition Labour Party says the government should oppose the extradition of Julian Assange to the United States.
Read moreWasting little time after the WikiLeaks founder’s arrest this morning, a London judge found Julian Assange guilty Thursday of breaching his bail conditions.
Read moreBritish police stationed armed officers outside the Ecuadorian Embassy in London on Friday after tweets from WikiLeaks quoted what it said were high-level sources saying that Julian Assange could be kicked out of the building within “hours to days.”
Read moreRefusing to unseal court documents related to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, a federal judge told a press freedom group vying for the records Wednesday to wait until prosecutors confirm Assange’s indictment.
Read moreJulian Assange is a wanker, a wuss and a twit. Years after he dumped online thousands of hacked documents, endangering people’s lives, he’s published a list of 140 things we dare not say about him, under threat of litigation. Give or take a forbidden word or two.
Read moreMissing no opportunity to fundraise, WikiLeaks filed its first court papers ever in a New York federal court on Friday, calling the Democratic Party’s conspiracy lawsuit over the 2016 election a threat to freedom of the press.
Read moreThe Justice Department says it inadvertently named WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in a court filing in a child pornography case in August, touching off widespread speculation that prosecutors have prepared charges against him.
Read moreNewly released Ecuadorean government documents have laid bare an unorthodox attempt to extricate WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange from his embassy hideaway in London by naming him as a political counselor to the country’s embassy in Moscow.
Read moreEcuador has formally ordered Julian Assange to steer clear of topics that could harm its diplomatic interests if he wants to be reconnected to the internet, according to a memo published in a local media outlet Monday.
Read moreThe Russian Federation, WikiLeaks and Donald J. Trump for President — all three are named as defendants Friday in a federal complaint that casts the trio as partners in the cyberattack that crippled the Democratic National Committee ahead of the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
Read moreCalling out the Julian Assange’s “interference” with other states through WikiLeaks, the Ecuadorean embassy in London cut off their longtime resident’s internet connection on Wednesday for the second time in less than two years.
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