Īssange has been confined in Belmarsh maximum-security prison in London since April 2019. On 6 January 2021, Assange was denied bail, pending an appeal by the United States. On 4 January 2021, District Judge Vanessa Baraitser ruled against the United States' request to extradite him and stated that doing so would be "oppressive" given his mental health. Editors from newspapers, including The Washington Post and The New York Times, as well as press freedom organisations, criticised the government's decision to charge Assange under the Espionage Act, characterising it as an attack on the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, which guarantees freedom of the press. On, the United States government further charged Assange with violating the Espionage Act of 1917. The United States government unsealed an indictment against Assange, related to the leaks provided by Chelsea Manning. He was found guilty of breaching the Bail Act and sentenced to 50 weeks in prison.
The police were invited into the embassy and he was arrested. On 11 April 2019, Assange's asylum was withdrawn following a series of disputes with the Ecuadorian authorities. election campaign, WikiLeaks published confidential Democratic Party emails, showing that the party's national committee favoured Hillary Clinton over her rival Bernie Sanders in the primaries. Swedish prosecutors dropped their investigation in 2019, saying their evidence had "weakened considerably due to the long period of time that has elapsed since the events in question." ĭuring the 2016 U.S. He was granted asylum by Ecuador in August 2012 on the grounds of political persecution, with the presumption that if he were extradited to Sweden, he would be eventually extradited to the US. After losing his battle against extradition to Sweden, he breached bail and took refuge in the Embassy of Ecuador in London in June 2012. Assange said the allegations were a pretext for his extradition from Sweden to the United States over his role in the publication of secret American documents. In November 2010, Sweden issued an international arrest warrant for Assange over allegations of sexual misconduct. After the 2010 leaks, the United States government launched a criminal investigation into WikiLeaks. These leaks included the Baghdad airstrike Collateral Murder video (April 2010), the Afghanistan war logs (July 2010), the Iraq war logs (October 2010), and Cablegate (November 2010). Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning. WikiLeaks came to international attention in 2010 when it published a series of leaks provided by U.S. Julian Paul Assange ( / ə ˈ s ɑː n ʒ/ born 3 July 1971) is an Australian editor, publisher and activist who founded WikiLeaks in 2006. Stella Moris-Smith Robertson (2015–present)
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