WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange leaves Westminster Magistrates Court in London, Britain. Henry Nicholls | Reuters WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Tuesday was granted permission by a U.K. court to appeal his extradition to the U.S., where he is wanted on spying charges. Assange will therefore not be extradited immediately, the court said. The ruling from … Read more
The decision extends Assange’s stay at the high security Belmarsh Prison in southeast London, where he has been held since April 2019. Legal action against Assange started in 2010 after hundreds of thousands of leaked documents about the Afghanistan and Iraq wars were published. The publisher spent seven years in London’s Ecuadorian embassy between 2012 … Read more
Several British judges are set to rule on whether WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange will be extradited to the United States after he launched a legal appeal to block the order. Assange’s appeal saw a two-day court hearing this week, in a final attempt to stop his extradition from the United Kingdom. The WikiLeaks Founder failed … Read more
The project is called “Dead Man’s Switch,” and the “dead man” in question is the Australian WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, who is currently jailed on remand in London’s high-security Belmarsh Prison. In 2010, WikiLeaks published a spate of leaks from the Army private Chelsea Manning about U.S. military activity in Iraq and Afghanistan. After Sweden … Read more
