Judge will rule on January 4 whether WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange should be extradited to the US on espionage charges By Jack Elsom For Mailonline Published: 17:16 BST, 1 October 2020 | Updated: 17:24 BST, 1 October 2020 Julian Assange’s extradition fate will be decided on January 4, a British judge said today. Judge Vanessa … Read more
Decision on whether Julian Assange will be extradited to the States won’t be made until after US election, judge says WikiLeaks founder fighting being sent to the US for allegedly leaking documents His defence claims move is politically motivated under President Donald Trump Assange, 49, faces an 18-count indictment alleging a plot to hack computers By … Read more
The US government is wrong to charge WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange with publishing unredacted classified documents because they had already appeared online, a court has heard. Computer scientist Professor Christian Grothoff said the organisation was not the first to make public 251,000 diplomatic cables when they appeared on its website on September 2, 2011. Assange, … Read more
Donald Trump ‘offered WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange a win-win deal to avoid extradition to US if he revealed source of the hacking of Democratic party emails’, court hears Jennifer Robinson, one Assange’s lawyer’s, made statement at Old Bailey today She recalled a meeting with two Trump allies in Ecuadorian embassy in 2017 She claimed they … Read more
Donald Trump ‘initially wanted WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange executed’, a US lawyer told the extradition hearing. US lawyer Eric Lewis said that at one point in 2010, Mr Trump had called for the death penalty, before changing his view and then later changing it again to be more negative towards Assange and WikiLeaks. A court … Read more
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is being persecuted by Donald Trump because of the President’s ‘considerable personal antipathy’ to Barack Obama, a professor of peace studies told his extradition hearing in London today. Professor Paul Rogers called Assange’s prosecution politically motivated, and said his political opinions put him in the ‘crosshairs’ of the Trump administration. Assange, 49, … Read more
Law firm that worked for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange facing multi-million pound legal claim By Ben Harrington, Financial Mail on Sunday Published: 21:58 BST, 15 August 2020 | Updated: 22:30 BST, 15 August 2020 A law firm that worked for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is facing a multi-million pound legal claim. Howard Kennedy, which also … Read more
Julian Assange plots to use human rights laws to fight extradition to US after fathering two children while living at Ecuadorian embassy Assange could use human rights laws to fight his extradition to the United States Legal team could use right to family life with Morris and two sons to bolster case Miss Morris revealed … Read more
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange cannot legally be handed to the US for ‘political offences’ because of a 2003 extradition treaty, his lawyers have claimed. The 48-year-old is wanted in the US for allegedly conspiring with army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning to expose military secrets between January and May 2010. A US grand jury has indicted … Read more