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Julian Assange

  • Wednesday, 26 June, 2024
    Julian Assange lands in Australia after walking free from US court

    WikiLeaks founder released on time served after admitting espionage charge at hearing on Pacific island

    Julian Assange gives a thumbs up
  • Wednesday, 26 June, 2024
    News in-depth
    WikiLeaks gadfly: the Julian Assange saga

    After seven years in an Ecuadorean embassy and five in a UK prison, US legal pursuit draws to a close

    LONDON, ENGLAND - MAY 19: Julian Assange speaks to the media from the balcony of the Embassy Of Ecuador on May 19, 2017 in London, England. Julian Assange, founder of the Wikileaks website that published US Government secrets, has been wanted in Sweden on charges of rape since 2012. He sought asylum in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London and today police have said he will still face arrest if he leaves. (Photo by Jack Taylor/Getty Images)
  • Tuesday, 25 June, 2024
    WikiLeaks founder Assange leaves UK after plea deal

    Agreement set to end long-running legal saga over one of biggest releases of classified materials in US history

    Extreme close-up of Julian Assange on a plane
  • Tuesday, 25 June, 2024
    How Australia lobbied for Assange release

    Plea bargain follows years of ‘quiet diplomacy’ by Anthony Albanese’s Labor government

    Julian Assange disembarking from an airplane
  • Tuesday, 26 March, 2024
    Julian Assange granted reprieve in appeal against US extradition

    WikiLeaks founder can make further representations for appeal, London judges rule

    Supporters of Julian Assange outside the High Court
  • Thursday, 14 March, 2024
    ReviewFilm
    The Trust Fall: Julian Assange film review — impassioned documentary about the WikiLeaks founder

    Kym Staton’s movie combines informative content with oddities and testimony from advocates

    A bearded man gives a thumbs-up from behind the window of a vehicle; in the window are reflections of police officers
  • Tuesday, 20 February, 2024
    Julian Assange launches final appeal against US extradition

    Lawyers for WikiLeaks founder tell London’s High Court that he faces a ‘flagrant denial of justice’

    Julian Assange’s supporters protesting outside the High Court in London on Tuesday
  • Thursday, 7 July, 2022
    ReviewFilm
    Ithaka — Julian Assange’s story told through the eyes of his family

    Ben Lawrence’s partisan but unflinching film follows Assange’s father John Shipton as he campaigns for his son’s freedom

    An elderly white-haired man stands and talks amid large cluster of reporters, photographers and camera crews
  • Friday, 17 June, 2022
    UK home secretary approves Assange extradition to the US

    WikiLeaks founder, who faces charges related to computer hacking and spying, has 14 days to appeal

  • Friday, 10 December, 2021
    WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange can be extradited to US, UK court rules

    Decision is a blow to activist who faces charges over leaks of classified material

    Julian Assange’s supporters outside London’s High Court on Friday
  • Friday, 8 January, 2021
    InterviewLunch with the FT
    Jennifer Robinson: ‘Assange had information. That made him dangerous’

    The barrister on representing the WikiLeaks founder — and the vitriol faced by her client Amber Heard

  • Wednesday, 6 January, 2021
    Court refuses to grant bail to Julian Assange

    WikiLeaks founder must remain in Belmarsh prison

  • Monday, 4 January, 2021
    UK court blocks Assange’s extradition to US

    Judge rules WikiLeaks founder would be a ‘substantial’ suicide risk if held in harsh prison conditions

  • Friday, 18 September, 2020
    Trump associates offered pardon deal to Assange, London court told

    Lawyer for WikiLeaks founder testifies that two close to US president sought deal for DNC leak source

  • Monday, 24 February, 2020
    WikiLeaks
    US bid to extradite Julian Assange is ‘abuse of power’, UK court told

    Lawyer for US says WikiLeaks founder risked lives by leaking documents without redactions

    Courtroom sketch of Julian Assange (left) at a hearing in court in London on Monday
  • Sunday, 23 February, 2020
    Julian Assange poised to begin London fight against US extradition

    WikiLeaks founder’s defence will argue the alleged offences are ‘political’ in nature

    Julian Assange is being held in Belmarsh prison, south-east London, as he serves a 50-week sentence for violating his 2012 bail conditions
  • Tuesday, 19 November, 2019
    Assange faces US extradition hearing as Sweden drops rape probe

    Prosecutors cite insufficient evidence as they halt investigation into WikiLeaks founder

    File photo dated 11/04/19 of Julian Assange as WikiLeaks has welcomed a decision by the Swedish authorities to drop an investigation into their founder. PA Photo. Issue date: Tuesday November 19, 2019. Assange has been facing rape-related allegations which he has always denied. Swedish prosecutors announced that the case has been "discounted." See PA story LEGAL Assange. Photo credit should read: Victoria Jones/PA Wire
  • Friday, 8 November, 2019
    Trump Russia ties
    Bannon testifies of Trump ‘access point’ to WikiLeaks

    Roger Stone trial hears claims of Assange ‘relationship’ during Democratic email dump

    Steve Bannon, the former chief executive of Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, speaks to members of the media outside federal court after testifying in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Friday, Nov. 8, 2019. Bannon testified that Roger Stone told him he "had a relationship" with WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange and implied he could get information from them.Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg
  • Monday, 21 October, 2019
    Julian Assange loses attempt to delay extradition hearing

    Case into whether WikiLeaks founder should stand trial in US to proceed in February

    Demonstrators hold placards during a protest outside of Westminster Magistrates Court, where a case management hearing in the U.S. extradition case of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is held, in London, Britain, October 21, 2019. REUTERS/Hannah McKay
  • Friday, 14 June, 2019
    UK court to decide on Assange extradition to US in February

    WikiLeaks founder faces 18 criminal charges over leak of classified military documents

    Supporters of Julian Assange hold a protest in front of Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Friday
  • Thursday, 13 June, 2019
    UK home secretary signs Julian Assange extradition warrant

    WikiLeaks founder faces charges in US of violating espionage law

    WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange gestures from the window of a prison van as he is driven into Southwark Crown Court in London on May 1, 2019, before being sentenced to 50 weeks in prison for breaching his bail conditions in 2012. - A British judge on Wednesday sentenced WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to 50 weeks in prison for breaching his bail conditions in 2012. Assange took refuge in Ecuador's London embassy to avoid extradition to Sweden and was only arrested last month after Ecuador withdrew his asylum status. (Photo by Daniel LEAL-OLIVAS / AFP)DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS/AFP/Getty Images
  • Monday, 3 June, 2019
    Swedish court rejects Assange detention request 

    Decision appears to strengthen the case for extradition call from the US

    Buildings are reflected in the window as WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is taken from court, where he appeared on charges of jumping British bail seven years ago, in London, Wednesday May 1, 2019. Assange has been jailed for 50 weeks for breaching his bail after going into hiding in the Ecuadorian embassy in London.(AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
  • Friday, 31 May, 2019
    UN warns against extraditing Assange to US

    Top torture official points to ‘real risk of serious violations of his human rights’

    File photo dated 11/04/19 of Julian Assange, who will appear in court later as he continues to fight against extradition to the United States over allegations he conspired to break into a classified Pentagon computer. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Thursday May 30, 2019. The WikiLeaks founder is expected to appear at Westminster Magistrates??? Court via videolink from Belmarsh prison for a case management hearing. See PA story COURTS Assange. Photo credit should read: Victoria Jones/PA Wire
  • Thursday, 30 May, 2019
    Julian Assange fails to appear at court hearing because of illness

    Next hearing for hospitalised WikiLeaks founder could be near Belmarsh prison

  • Thursday, 23 May, 2019
    Assange charged in US with violating Espionage Act

    Legal scholars say the new charges raise questions about the scope of press freedom

    LONDON, ENGLAND - APRIL 11: Julian Assange gestures to the media from a police vehicle on his arrival att Westminster Magistrates court on April 11, 2019 in London, England. After weeks of speculation Wikileaks founder Julian Assange was arrested by Scotland Yard Police Officers inside the Ecuadorian Embassy in Central London this morning. Ecuador's President, Lenin Moreno, withdrew Assange's Asylum after seven years citing repeated violations to international conventions. (Photo by Jack Taylor/Getty Images)
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