On June 11, the U.S. government formally submitted an extradition request to the United Kingdom for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. He is facing an 18-count indictment accusing him of soliciting and publishing classified information and conspiring with former Army private Chelsea Manning to crack a Defense Department computer password. All of these charges (other than […]
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Moreno: Assange used to coordinate hackers from the embassy
Ecuador’s president on Tuesday accused Julian Assange of hosting numerous hackers at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London to give them directions on how to propagate information on topics important to the WikiLeaks founder and his financiers. President Lenin Moreno said that Swedish programmer Ola Bini, who is in custody in Ecuador, was one of the […]
Assange held in London’s high-security Belmarsh prison
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is being held in London’s high-security Belmarsh jail which has housed a portion of Britain’s most infamous detainees, a legitimate source said on Friday. The jail, which has a limit of around 900, houses prisoners on remand and serving short sentences just as those indicted for the most genuine offenses. The […]
‘Deterioration in relations’ behind Assange arrest
Ecuador’s decision to abruptly end Julian Assange’s seven-year asylum in its London embassy on Thursday followed a long deterioration in relations, driven in part by suspicions he was secretly fuelling corruption allegations against President Lenin Moreno. British police on Thursday arrested the WikiLeaks founder, who sought asylum in the Andean nation’s diplomatic mission during the […]