Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce has joined calls to end attempts to extradite jailed Australian whistleblower Julian Assange to the United States.Mr Assange is currently in jail in the UK and a British court recently ruled he could be extradited to the US to face espionage charges for an alleged

“Free Press Free Assange” movement has become a hot issue on Twitter, spreading across the world.Twitter account @JulianAssange has played a major role of this social media movement, having more than almost 800,000 followers. It means many people in the world hope to see freed Assange and achieve pr

WikiLeaks Korea The opinion that the UK government and court must give freedom to Julian Assange, the founder of the WikiLeaks is increasing among netizens around the world.Since a report has spread that the health of Julian Assange who has been staying in the Embassy of Ecuador in London virtually

WikiLeaks Korea -In February 1633, Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei arrived in Rome for trial before the Inquisition, accused of defending Copernican theory that the Earth revolved around the Sun.Throughout his four strict trials, Galileo in his seventies recanted the Copernican theory. As a result, he spent the rest of his life under house arrest instead of being sentenced to death.Acc

Ecuador’s foreign minister says: ‘To mediate you need two parties, Ecuador is willing, but not necessarily the other party’Talks between the UK and Ecuador over the future of Julian Assange at its London embassy have broken down, the South American country’s foreign minister has said.Maria Fernanda Espinosa suggested British officials had been unwilling to negotiate over the Wikileaks

WikiLeaks founder continues to face arrest if he leaves Ecuadorian embassy as judge rejects request to quash warrantJulian Assange will continue to face detention if he leaves the Ecuadorian embassy in London after a British judge upheld a warrant for his arrest.Handing down her judgment at Westminster magistrates court, the senior district judge Emma Arbuthnot said she was not persuaded by th

After six years holed up in Ecuadorian embassy, WikiLeaks founder faces a pivotal momentIt is nearly six years since Julian Assange disguised himself as a motorcycle courier and entered the Ecuadorian embassy in London to seek political asylum. His subsequent legal battle, so vast and protracted a CPS lawyer once deemed it “like an industry” in itself, comes to a pivotal moment on Tuesday, w

UK prosecutors tried to dissuade Swedish counterparts from doing so, exchange showsSwedish prosecutors attempted to drop extradition proceedings against Julian Assange as early as 2013, according to a confidential exchange of emails with the Crown Prosecution Service seen by the Guardian.The sequence of messages also appears to challenge statements by the CPS that the case was not live at the

Assange’s lawyers react by launching new application on public interest groundsJulian Assange will continue to face arrest if he leaves the Ecuadorian embassy, after a judge ruled that the arrest warrant against the WikiLeaks founder was still valid.But after the senior district judge Emma Arbuthnot ruled against Assange on Tuesday, his lawyers made a separate application that the warrant sh

The longtime Trump associate visited the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where officials have harbored Assange for over five yearsRoger Stone, a longtime associate of Donald Trump who has previously claimed he had a “backchannel” to WikiLeaks, on Wednesday visited the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where officials have harbored the organization’s founder, Julian Assange, for over five years.