The father and half-brother of the controversial founder of WikiLeaks together pleaded to an audience of University of Maryland journalism students and community members last night for support in his legal battles and for protecting free speech rights.Knight Hall’s Eaton Theatre hosted a screening o

Politicians, lawyers, journalists, whistle blowers and human rights defenders have pleaded with Prime Minister Albanese to step up his efforts to free imprisoned Australian publisher and WikiLeaks co-founder, Julian Assange.Experts testified at the Belmarsh Tribunal in Sydney on 4 March, an event or

Director Ben Lawrence’s award-winning Ithaka, released in theaters March 1, takes viewers behind the curtain into the ongoing struggle to prevent Julian Assange, arguably one of the planet’s most famous political prisoners, from being extradited from the United Kingdom. Assange faces espionage charg

Hobart 4 Assange and Melbourne for Assange Australia are hosting rallies for Julian Assange and are proposing a Global Day of Action on March 19th , the 20th anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq.On the 19th March 2003 the USA led an illegal military invasion of Iraq based on its own fabricated sec

The whistleblowing news site Wikileaks is partnering with the London-based arts organisation a/political and the freedom of information organisation Wau Holland Foundation to present an exhibition next month which will include a physical copy of some of the top secret US diplomatic cables it leaked

The public outcry over the Assange case is reaching a new pitch, writes John Rees.‘Never can there come fog too thick, never can there come mud and mire too deep, to assort with the groping floundering condition which is this High Court of Chancery’, wrote Charles Dickens in Bleak House.Famously he

"줄리안 어산지를 석방하라!"11일(현지시간) 오후 6시 영국 런던의 링컨스 인 필즈 광장에 ‘어산지를 송환하지 말라(Don't Extradite Assange)’ 캠페인 축제를 위해 약 2천 명이 모여 웨스트민스터 의회광장을 향해 행진을 했다.2010년 미국 정부의 범죄를 폭로하는 문서들을 공개한 어산지는 2012년부터 런던 주재 에콰도르 대사관에서 망명 생활을 하다가 2019년 대사관 건물 밖으로 강제로 끌려나와 체포된 이후 지금까지 런던 남동부에 있는 악명높은 교도소에 수감돼 있다. 그리고 거의 24시간 독방에 구금된

As Americans, we should be angry and disgusted that our government, and now the Biden administration, has been engaged in the persecution of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. Assange is a political prisoner. He has never endangered the lives of Americans, and there is no evidence otherwise.“He went

“The first casualty of war is truth!” said US Senator Hiram W. Johnson of California in 1929, during the debate on the ratification of the Kellogg-Briand pact, a noble but ultimately unsuccessful attempt to ban war. Reflecting on World War I, which had ended a decade earlier, Johnson continued: “It

Former British Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, famed linguist and dissident Noam Chomsky and others gave testimony Friday at the Belmarsh Tribunal in Washington, D.C., calling on President Biden to drop charges against Julian Assange.The WikiLeaks founder