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  1. Julian Paul Assange (/ ə ˈ s ɑː n ʒ / ə-SAHNZH; né Hawkins; born 3 July 1971) is an Australian editor, publisher and activist who founded WikiLeaks in 2006. He came to wide international attention in 2010 when WikiLeaks published a series of leaks from US Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning: footage of a US airstrike in Baghdad, US military logs from the Afghanistan and Iraq wars ...

  2. Mar 26, 2024 · Julian Assange, founder of the whistleblowing website Wikileaks, will have to wait until 20 May to find out whether he will be extradited to the US. The UK courts had agreed to send Mr Assange to ...

  3. Mar 26, 2024 · March 26, 2024. Two British judges are set to decide on Tuesday whether Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, will be granted the right to appeal an extradition order to the United States, where ...

    • Why Assange Was Initially Arrested
    • Wikileaks’ Role in The 2016 Presidential Election
    • Trump Associates’ Contacts with Wikileaks
    • What’s Next For Assange?

    The U.S. indictmentagainst Assange stems from WikiLeaks’ publication in 2010 and 2011 of hundreds of thousands of U.S. military reports about the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as American diplomatic communications. The material was originally leaked to WikiLeaks by former Army analyst Chelsea Manning. The indictment includes one count of co...

    Separate from the Manning leaks, the U.S. government has been investigating WikiLeaks’ role in the Russian government’s efforts to interfere in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. WikiLeaks published a trove of embarrassing and politically damaging hacked emails from then-presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s chief of staff John Podesta and oth...

    President Trump’s son Donald Trump Jr. and longtime political adviser Roger Stone also came under scrutiny for corresponding with WikiLeaks during the 2016 campaign. Donald Trump Jr. has disclosed messages showing he corresponded with WikiLeaks for about 10 months during the 2016 campaign. The messages show he stopped corresponding with the organiz...

    A lawyer for Assange said he would fight extradition to the U.S., and that his arrest sets a dangerous precedent for the rights of journalists. Assange is set to appear in a London court May 2 via video-link from prison in relation to the extradition case.

  4. 4 days ago · Julian Assange (born July 3, 1971, Townsville, Queensland, Australia) Australian computer programmer who founded the media organization WikiLeaks.Practicing what he called “scientific journalism”—i.e., providing primary source materials with a minimum of editorial commentary—Assange, through WikiLeaks, released thousands of internal or classified documents from an assortment of ...

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  6. Feb 20, 2024 · Julian Assange’s legal team returned to London’s High Court on Tuesday to fight for what could become his final attempt at avoiding extradition to the United States, where he is facing life in ...

  7. Jan 3, 2021 · Mr. Assange, 49, was indicted in 2019 on 17 counts of violating the Espionage Act for obtaining and publishing secret military and diplomatic documents. He was charged with violating the Computers ...

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