Tag: WikiLeaks

OPINION & ANALYSIS: Confined to his cell for 23 hours a day, Assange has no Internet and only very limited telephone access. And don't try and send him a magazine. His treatment is outrageous.

OPINION & ANALYSIS: A hearing on whether Julian Assange should be extradited from the United Kingdom to the United States was held on last week in London. Our writer Paul O'Hanlon, who is a supporter of Assange, was at the court.

John Shipton has called on Australia to bring Julian Assange home, saying he was shocked to see his son’s condition upon his arrest in London.

Plight of Julian Assange could lead to other journalists and whistle-blowers being imprisoned, says veteran Australian film-maker.

Emails suggest former Australian PM was seeking council from senior US political powerbroker around the same time as his bid for the position of United Nations general secretary.

Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, says he may leave Ecuadorean embassy in London at noon tomorrow.

The Metropolitan Police have pulled back their round-the-clock watch of the Ecuadorian embassy in London but say the WikiLeaks founder will still be arrested if he leaves.

WikiLeaks founder still wanted by Sweden, and refuses to talk without access to investigation files.

Swedish authorities have agreed to question WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange at the Ecuadorean Embassy in London, where the 43-year-old Australian has been holed up for nearly three years.

OPINION: A fiery letter to UK Home Secretary Theresa May about Julian Assange’s continued asylum in London’s Ecuadorian embassy.

"The Australian government is not just gagging the press, it is blindfolding the public," says Julian Assange as WikiLeaks publishes secret suppression order issued by Victorian court.

The Abbott government has dismissed reports that the four pillars banking policy is at risk as Labor says any change would be irresponsible.

Julian Assange used the second anniversary of his entering the Ecuador's embassy in London to attack both the US and Australian governments.

It's been a big year for Aussies in London - Rolf Harris was charged, a future King was born and Julian Assange marked one year in the Ecuadorean embassy.

After years of attempting to build a case against Julian Assange, it appears US prosecutors won't indict him for publishing confidential documents.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says The Fifth Estate starring Benedict Cumberbatch is “a geriatric snoozefest that only the US government could love”.

Julian Assange believes his political party has performed well in the Senate race despite failing to get anyone elected.

INTERVIEW | The Australian government is, for Julian Assange, a place of corruption, of compromised interests, political infighting and parties who have lost their purpose and direction. Ahead of next week’s federal election in which he is running for a seat in the Senate, he tells Australian Times why he’s ...

Julian Assange says it has been hard leading the WikiLeaks Party from London, after the resignation of a star candidate.

AUSTRALIAN ELECTION 13 | Four members of the WikiLeaks Party’s governing National Council have resigned, following the decision of Victorian Senate candidate Leslie Cannold to quit over a dispute over preferences.

WikiLeaks Senate candidate Dr Leslie Cannold has resigned from the party in the aftermath of an internal party dispute over the organisation's allocation of preferences.

AUSTRALIAN ELECTION 13 | The WikiLeaks Party has accidentally preferenced two right wing parties ahead of the Greens in the NSW Senate ticket.

Ecuador has released a statement on the first anniversary of Julian Assange being granted political asylum saying that it wants to resolve the Australian's diplomatic status.

Australian Attorney General Mark Dreyfus has claimed that information leaked by Edward Snowden and Bradley Manning did not expose government wrongdoing.

Fugitive US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden has claimed “the law is winning” after being granted a year’s asylum by Russia, accompanied by WikiLeaks legal adviser Sarah Harrison.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has described Bradley Manning as “the most important journalistic source that the world has ever seen”.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange appeared via video link in Melbourne’s Fitzroy library to announce the Australian WikiLeaks Party’s plan to run for the Senate.

WikiLeaks Senate candidate Dr Alison Broinowski says that if Julian Assange is found guilty of rape it would be "his own business" and has nothing to do with the party.

Declassified documents from Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade show Australian diplomats are closely following the Bradley Manning case to monitor references to WikiLeaks and Julian Assange.

Sensitive documents leaked by NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden have revealed that several Australian facilities are actively contributing to a controversial American intelligence collection program.

WikiLeaks says Edward Snowden, currently in Moscow after leaving Hong Kong on a commercial flight, is bound for Ecuador via a “safe route”.

Former PM John Howard isn’t sure Julian Assange has committed a crime, but rates him as “an attention seeker of the worst kind”.

Australian Julian Assange continues to polarise opinion a year after he sought political asylum, as a recent story concerning his right to sunlight proves. Assange met with Ecuador foreign minister Ricardo Patino at the embassy this morning.

UK Foreign Secretary William Hague will meet his Ecuadorian counterpart Ricardo Patino on 17 June to discuss the future of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.