WASHINGTON (AP) — About a year and a half ago, a lawyer for Julian Assange presented federal prosecutors in Virginia with a longshot request: Dismiss the case against the WikiLeaks founder. It was a bold ask given that Assange had published hundreds of thousands of secret documents and was arguably the highest-profile detainee in the … Read more
Julian Assange spent more than five years in London’s Belmarsh prison. Canberra, Australia: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is “rediscovering” life as he tastes freedom in Australia after a five-year stretch in a London high-security prison, his wife said Thursday. The 52-year-old landed in Canberra the night before, hours after pleading guilty in a US Pacific … Read more
Assange is scheduled to appear Wednesday morning at a court in the Northern Mariana Islands. London: Jailed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been fighting for years to avoid extradition from Britain in connection with the 2010 publication of thousands of US classified documents. Here is a timeline of his legal troubles after he agreed to … Read more