London: WikiLeaks has said it has secured a victory in Iceland's Supreme Court against the financial blockade imposed by Visa and MasterCard on donations for the secret-spilling site. Visa and MasterCard were among half a dozen major US financial firms to pull the plug on WikiLeaks following its decision to begin publishing about 250,000 US State Department cables in late 2010.
WikiLeaks has claimed that the financial blockade led to a 95 per cent fall in revenue. It said on Wednesday that Iceland's Supreme Court had upheld a district court's decision that MasterCard's local partner, alitor, had illegally terminated its contract with WikiLeaks' payment processer, DataCell. The court warned Valitor it would be fined 800,000 Icelandic krona (USD 6,824) per day if the gateway to WikiLeaks donations is not reopened within 15 days, WikiLeaks said.
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06:54 AM, Apr 25, 2013
Washington: Unlike in the past, the latest tranche of secret US diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks have not been leaked, but have been "legitimately obtained from a US government web site" and released in a user-friendly searchable format. These diplomatic cables about 1.7 million from the period of 1973-76 - now being dubbed as "The Kissinger cable" - were declassified by the US State Department in 2006 and since then...
12:15 PM, Apr 09, 2013
New Delhi: WikiLeaks returned to haunt the Congress party on Monday which trashed reports claiming that Rajiv Gandhi was a middleman for a Swedish aircraft company before entering politics but the Opposition demanded that the "truth" be made public. The Congress made it clear that the reports had no basis whatsoever, with party general secretary Janardan Dwivedi referring to the last line of the leaked WikiLeaks cable to emphasise that...
08:54 PM, Apr 08, 2013
Adelaide: A senior Swedish judge has described the sex crime allegations in his country against fugitive WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange as "a mess." In a speech at Australia's University of Adelaide on Wednesday, Justice Stefan Lindskog, chairman of the Supreme Court of Sweden, listed legal obstacles to extraditing the 41-year-old Australian to the United States to face prosecution for exposing thousands of classified documents. Assange has taken asylum in the...
11:28 PM, Apr 03, 2013
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who has been confined to the Ecuadorean embassy in London since last June, is unlikely to be able to leave Britain before 2015. ...
07:51 PM, Mar 30, 2013
Directed by Alex Gibney, the film features Julian Assange and Adrian Lamo as the principal characters. ...
12:20 PM, Mar 28, 2013
The US Army private accused of providing secret documents to the WikiLeaks website pleaded guilty on Thursday to misusing classified material he felt "should become public," but denied the top charge of aiding the enemy. Private First Class Bradley Manning, 25, entered the pleas prior to his court martial, which is set to begin on June 3, in a case that centers on the biggest leak of government secrets in...
10:50 AM, Mar 01, 2013
Maldives opposition leader Mohamed Nasheed has "done a Julian Assange", said WikiLeaks on Twitter after the former president took refuge at the Indian High Commission in Male. ...
05:30 PM, Feb 13, 2013
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, currently holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, will contest September poll for the Australian Senate as the lead candidate of his newly formed WikiLeaks Party. The 41-year-old hacker-turned activist's application for electoral enrollment in the state was received by Australian Electoral Commission here, the 'The Age' reported. ...
11:31 AM, Feb 13, 2013
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who is holed up in the Ecuadorean embassy in London, will run for a Senate seat in Australia this year and his mother feels he would offer a good break from the 'US lackeys' in politics. ...
10:43 AM, Jan 31, 2013
Assange said his unauthorized sneak peek has left him convinced the film is a hit piece. ...
11:25 AM, Jan 26, 2013
If you're making a movie about WikiLeaks, this is the kind of thing you probably see coming. ...
07:53 AM, Jan 26, 2013
Assange, who grew up in Australia, was also profiled in the 2012 Australian TV film 'Underground.' ...
10:44 AM, Jan 24, 2013
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, who continues to be confined to the Ecuadorian Embassy in London for six months now, made an appearance on the embassy's balcony. The 41-year-old addressed the public promising more high-powered exposes in the near future. ...
09:28 AM, Dec 21, 2012
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said on Thursday the "door was open" for talks to end his refuge in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where he holed up six months ago to avoid extradition to Sweden for alleged sex crimes. ...
06:09 AM, Dec 21, 2012
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange accused "hard-right" US politicians on Tuesday of pressing European credit card firms to block more than $50 million of donations to the website that published thousands of secret US diplomatic cables. ...
01:53 AM, Nov 28, 2012
Former Swiss bank employee Rudolf Elmer, who gave WikiLeaks the black money list, told CNN-IBN on Sunday that the list included Indian politicians, cricketers and film stars. ...
06:10 PM, Nov 11, 2012
In an exclusive interview with Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, he gives us an idea of how life has been at the Ecuadorian embassy in London. Assange has been there since June, 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden. When asked what is it like living in an embassy, Assange said, "It is like living in a space station, there is no natural light. My career and stuff - you can't go ...
08:33 AM, Oct 26, 2012
United Nations: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Thursday accused the US of playing dual politics - supporting a revolution in the Middle East, while at the same time, gagging his whistleblower organisation. "It must have come as a surprise to the Egyptian teenagers who washed American teargas out of their eyes (during the Arab Spring) to hear that the US supported change in the Middle East," Assange said. "It's time...
10:52 AM, Sep 27, 2012
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange appealed to the US to stop persecuting him and his website for releasing classified US files. Assange has been holed up in Ecaudor since mid-June to avoid extradition to Sweden. Assange made a personal appeal to US President Barack Obama. "It is time for President Obama to do the right thing and join the forces of change - not in fine words, but in fine deeds." ...
09:47 AM, Sep 27, 2012
