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When Julian was a year old his mother married Brett Assange, [35] [36] [37] an actor with whom she ran a small theatre company and whom Julian Assange regards as his father (choosing Assange as his surname).
Julian Assange is a founding member of the WikiLeaks staff.. The inspiration for WikiLeaks was Daniel Ellsberg's release of the Pentagon Papers in 1971. Assange built WikiLeaks to shorten the time between a leak and its coverage by the media.
A statement posted on X from the WikiLeaks account on June 24 read: “Julian Assange is free. He left Belmarsh maximum security prison on the morning of 24 June, after having spent 1901 days there.
The most controversial leaks by WikiLeaks featured classified U.S. military documents and videos from the war it waged in Iraq and Afghanistan in the early to mid 2000s that it said highlighted ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A plea deal with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will bring a stunning conclusion to an international saga of the quixotic hacker who exposed government secrets. The deal reached with the U.S. Justice Department will lead to freedom for Assange after spending 12 years either in self-exile or prison.
By 2006, when he founded WikiLeaks, Assange’s delight at being able to traverse locked computer systems seemingly for fun developed into a belief that, as he wrote on his blog, “only revealed ...
Sealed US indictment of Julian Assange, returned 6 March 2018, released on 11 April 2019 In 2012, while on bail, Julian Assange was granted political asylum in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, where he sought to avoid extradition to Sweden, and what his supporters said was the possibility of subsequent extradition to the US. On 11 April 2019, Ecuador revoked his asylum, he was arrested for ...
Here is the full statement from Wikileaks which was posted on X, formerly known as Twitter: “Julian Assange is free. He left Belmarsh maximum security prison on the morning of June 24, after ...