The founder of WikiLeaks has not revealed his plans and people close to him say that he needs time to recover after spending 12 years in isolation
The WikiLeaks founder made his first public appearance since his release before a committee of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, France
The country’s justice system is refusing to respond to judicial assistance requests until a New York court concludes whether the CIA participated in the events
The plane carrying the WikiLeaks co-founder has landed in his native country, where the government had called for an end to the legal case against him. He was greeted by crowds of supporters in Canberra
The publication in 2010 by five media outlets of thousands of US diplomatic cables opened the door to a new form of collaborative journalism. EL PAÍS reviews what it was like to participate in that project
The activist is expected to plead guilty to one count of violating the Espionage Law, then be allowed to return home to Australia after having already spent five years in a UK prison
The police did not hand over David Morales’ WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram, Proton Mail and Skype conversations to the judge. The magistrate has ordered their immediate recovery
High Court judges Victoria Sharp and Jeremy Johnson said Assange has grounds to challenge the United Kingdom’s government’s extradition order
William J. Burns invoked the agency’s statutory privileges to avoid giving a New York judge details of the spying operation that was revealed by EL PAÍS in 2019
The British magistrates, who demanded guarantees from Washington that the WikiLeaks co-founder will receive a fair trial, will decide on May 20 if the extradition should go ahead
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese had supported a motion in the lower house in February calling for Assange’s return to his home country
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
Hundreds of people gathered outside the High Court of Justice in London to demand the release of the WikiLeaks editor and support freedom of the press
A New York court ruled that a former Spanish military officer illegally surveilled people visiting the activist at the Ecuadorian embassy in London
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
Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III reached out to his South Korean counterpart after the leaked documents suggested the U.S. was spying on its allies
A U.S. intelligence report states that Israel’s spy body Mossad has been fueling protests against the government’s judicial overhaul — claims denied by the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
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
The president of Mexico says that he will intercede in favor of the founder of WikiLeaks when he visits his American counterpart Joe Biden on July 12
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
