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The Saipan surprise: How delicate talks led to the unlikely end of Julian Assange's 12-year saga

June 30, 2024 1:55 am

Assange's supporters have for years maintained that he provided an invaluable public service by exposing military misconduct in America's foreign wars, much the same way journalists are tasked with doing.

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Stella Assange thanks Australian lawmakers for WikiLeaks founder's freedom

June 27, 2024 11:52 pm

“Julian is overjoyed and so grateful to the Australian people, to the members of Parliament and to the government and also the opposition who came together to voice the need for his release,” Stella Assange said.

Julian Assange is now free to do or say whatever he likes. What does his future hold?

June 27, 2024 8:47 pm

It is unclear what will happen to WikiLeaks, the site Assange founded in 2006 as a place to post confidential documents exposing corruption and revealing secret government workings behind warfare and spying.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange waves as he arrives in Canberra, Australia, June 26, 2024. (Reuters)

Assange’s plea deal sets a chilling precedent, but it could have been worse

June 26, 2024 5:58 pm

The result is an ambiguous end to a legal saga that has jeopardized the ability of journalists to report on military, intelligence or diplomatic information that officials deem secret. Enshrined in the First Amendment, the role of a free press in bringing to light information beyond what those in power approve for release is a foundational principle of American self-government.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange appears at a U.S. District Court in Saipan

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange freed by US court after guilty plea

June 26, 2024 8:01 am

During the three hour hearing, Assange pled guilty to one criminal count of conspiring to obtain and disclose classified U.S. national defence documents but said he had believed the Constitution's First Amendment, which protects free speech, shielded his activities.

Julian Assange symbolises an idea — the freedom of information

July 08, 2024 10:12 am

He has done more than an individual can and he has been supported by and inspired generations of internet activists who continue to take the risk and leak and spread information that is otherwise shrouded in silence in the name of national security

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange looks out a plane window as he approaches Bangkok airport for layover, according to the post by Wikileaks on X.

WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange set to walk free: What is the deal he made with the US govt?

June 25, 2024 5:14 pm

Julian Assange shot to fame in the early 2010s, when his website WikiLeaks made public some confidential information, including on US military operations in Iraq. It also brought espionage-related charged against him, but his long-running legal battle is set to end soon. Here is his story.

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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's seven years in the Ecuadorean embassy

April 13, 2019 11:08 am

A look back at WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's seven years inside the Ecuadorean embassy, after his South American hosts abruptly revoked his asylum and he was arrested by British police.