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

지구가 태양을 돈다는 ‘지동설’을 제기했던 갈릴레이 갈릴레오는 1633년 2월 로마교황청의 종교재판에 회부된다.70대의 고령이었던 갈릴레오는 4차례에 걸친 삼엄한 재판 분위기에서 자신의 지동설을 철회한다는 고백과 함께 사형 대신 가택연금형을 선고받았다. 생명의 위협 때문에 자신의 주장을

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.

WikiLeaks founder hopes ruling in his favour would allow him to leave Ecuadorian embassyThe WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, has asked a UK court to drop the arrest warrant that prevents him from leaving the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where he has been living for five and a half years.Assange, 46, skipped bail to enter the embassy in 2012 in order to avoid extradition to Sweden over alleg

Robertson frequently criticises refugee policy, warning Australia seen as ‘mean and miserable’He’s been a frequent critic of Australia’s refugee policy, warning Australia risks being seen as “mean and miserable”; he’s defended our highest profile fugitive, Julian Assange, and lived for the bulk of his life outside the country.Now Geoffrey Robertson QC, human rights lawyer and civ