High Court judges Victoria Sharp and Jeremy Johnson will allow the WikiLeaks co-founder to appeal his transfer if the American government does not provide guarantees that his life and rights will be upheld
The agreement on a lesser charge of mishandling classified information would avoid the extradition of the WikiLeaks co-founder, who faces 175 years in prison
In an interview with EL PAÍS, Julian Assange’s wife expresses cautious optimism after the hearing in London on the U.S. request to extradite the WikiLeaks co-founder
The five newspaper editors who published the WikiLeaks revelations in 2010 warn of the risks to press freedom posed by Assange being turned over to the U.S. justice system
The owner of UC Global, which held a security contract at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, also kept intimate images of a diplomat in his safe for alleged blackmail attempt
Assange has battled in British courts for years to avoid being sent to the U.S., where he faces 17 charges of espionage and one charge of computer misuse over WikiLeaks’ publication of classified documents
In a recent document dump delivered to the presiding judge, more than 250 extra gigabytes of files related to the surveillance of the founder of WikiLeaks were included — far more than what was initially presented by police
The Brazilian president called it ‘an embarrassment’ and ‘a crazy thing’ that Assange would be jailed for denouncing fraud, and bemoaned the press for failing to come to his defense
Emails from the owner of UC Global reveal that he sold data about the Wikileaks founder’s legal defense strategy to the intelligence agency. The U.S. government quickly sent a warrant to the U.K. to foil the activist’s escape plan
EL PAÍS has had access to video, audio and written reports showing that the WikiLeaks founder was the target of a surveillance operation while living at the Ecuadorian embassy in London