Quito: The mother of Julian Assange, visiting Ecuador on Monday to plea for her son's asylum request, said the WikiLeaks founder is under extreme psychological stress and feels his only option is to seek safety in Ecuador. Assange has been taking refuge in the Ecuadorean embassy in London since June 19. The former computer hacker, who enraged Washington in 2010 when his WikiLeaks website published secret US diplomatic cables, is...
01:37 AM, Jul 31, 2012
London: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was served with a "surrender notice" by Scotland Yard on Thursday, just days after he dramatically took refuge at the Ecuadorean embassy in London seeking political asylum to block his extradition to Sweden to face sexual assault charges. Earlier in June, 40-year-old Assange had lost his final bid to avoid his extradition to Sweden when Britain's Supreme Court dismissed his appeal to re-open the extradition...
07:13 PM, Jun 28, 2012
Melbourne: Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr on Sunday said there was no indication from the US of a plan to extradite to the country WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who is currently holed up in Ecuadoran embassy in London. "There is not the remotest evidence that is the case," he was quoted as saying by the Australian news agency AAP. Carr said he has received no hint from two discussions with...
03:30 PM, Jun 24, 2012
Quito: WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange has asked for political asylum at Ecuador's embassy in London and officials in the South American nation are considering his request, its foreign minister said on Tuesday. "Ecuador is studying and analyzing the request," Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino told reporters in Quito. Assange faces extradition to Sweden for questioning over alleged sex crimes after Britain's top court said last week that it had rejected a...
01:19 AM, Jun 20, 2012
London: Britain's Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed a final bid by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to reopen his appeal against extradition to Sweden over alleged sex crimes. The required period for extradition "shall not commence until the 14th day after today", the court said. Two weeks ago the court rejected 40-year-old Assange's argument that a European arrest warrant for extradition was invalid, the BBC reported. His lawyers had argued that...
07:58 PM, Jun 14, 2012
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11:38 PM, May 30, 2012
London: The British Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's plea against extradition. Assange will be extradited to Sweden on sexual assault charges. The judge said that the decision was reached with a majority of five to two. Assange wasn't present in the court on Wednesday. "The request for Assange's extradition has been lawfully made and his appeal against extradition is accordingly is dismissed," said Supreme Court president...
02:07 PM, May 30, 2012
London: Britain's Supreme Court is expected to rule on Wednesday on whether to approve the extradition of WikiLeaks chief Julian Assange to Sweden, a potential turning point in the Internet activist's controversial career. Assange, 40, has spent the better part of two years fighting attempts to send him to the Scandinavian nation, where he is accused of sex crimes. At least one extradition expert said that his long-running legal campaign...
08:21 AM, May 30, 2012
London: The opening episode of Julian Assange's new talk show featured an interview with militant leader Hassan Nasrallah, whose Syria-backed Hezbollah militia is considered a terrorist organization in the United States and Europe. The half-hour segment aired on Kremlin-backed broadcaster RT Tuesday and featured questions about Israel, Lebanon, Syria, theology and encryption. Nasrallah, who is rarely seen on English-language television, largely stuck to well-established positions. But he did reveal that...
07:45 PM, Apr 17, 2012
New Delhi: Wikileaks founder Julian Assange will launch his new TV talk show on Russia Today on April 17, but is keeping the guest list secret, the Kremlin-funded English language station said on Friday. Assange, who is under house arrest in England fighting extradition to Sweden for questioning on an alleged sexual assault, filmed 'The World Tomorrow' show from Britain. Russia Today (RT) said in a news release that it...
12:24 PM, Apr 14, 2012
Canberra: A seat in Australia's Parliament for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange would do nothing to protect him from his legal battles in Britain and Sweden, or any potential legal fight over leaked US diplomatic cables, an expert on Parliament said on Tuesday. Assange wants to run for the Upper House Senate in Australia, and told the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper on Tuesday that he would use the protection of Parliament...
01:50 PM, Mar 27, 2012
Sydney: The founder and leader of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, plans to run for a seat in Australia's upper house of Parliament, the anti-secrecy group announced on Twitter on Saturday. The comments could not be immediately confirmed. Australian-born Assange, 40, is currently under house arrest in Britain and fighting extradition to Sweden for questioning over alleged sex crimes. "We have discovered that it is possible for Julian Assange to run for...
03:34 AM, Mar 19, 2012
Sydney: The founder and leader of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, plans to run for a seat in Australia's Upper House of Parliament, the anti-secrecy group announced on Twitter on Saturday. The comments could not be immediately confirmed. Australian-born Assange, 40, is currently under house arrest in Britain and fighting extradition to Sweden for questioning over alleged sex crimes. "We have discovered that it is possible for Julian Assange to run for...
05:23 PM, Mar 17, 2012
New Delhi: Whistle blower website Wikileaks is making headlines again. It has released more than 5 million confidential email transactions from the US-based intelligence firm Stratfor, showing Dow Chemicals used the firm to keep tabs on online activities of Bhopal gas tragedy activists. Wikileaks claims that these emails prove that Dow used Startfor to spy on Bhopal gas tragedy activists to subvert their campaign and to deny the victims justice....
08:17 AM, Feb 28, 2012
Fort Meade: US Army intelligence analyst Bradley Manning, accused of the largest leak of classified documents in US history, deferred a plea in a military court arraignment on Thursday, marking the first step in a court-martial that could land him in prison for life. In Thursday's procedure, Manning, 24, was formally charged with 22 counts including aiding the enemy, wrongfully causing intelligence to be published on the Internet and theft...
08:21 AM, Feb 24, 2012
London: Britain's Supreme Court risks jeopardising extraditions to many neighbouring countries if it stops WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange being sent to Sweden for questioning over sex crimes, a lawyer for Swedish prosecutors argued on Thursday. On the final day of hearings to determine whether the Australian is freed from house arrest in Britain or flown out to face Swedish investigators, Clare Montgomery told the justices they could set a legal...
12:14 AM, Feb 03, 2012
London: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's hearing entered the final stage on Wednesday. Assange appealed for the third time to the Britain's Supreme Court not to extradite him to Sweden over accusations of sex crimes - a move that could push his anti-secrecy website further toward oblivion. Australian-born Assange, 40, became a worldwide celebrity and infuriated the US government in 2010 when WikiLeaks released secret video footage and thousands of US...
04:34 PM, Feb 01, 2012
London: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will appeal to Britain's Supreme Court on Wednesday not to extradite him to Sweden over accusations of sex crimes, a move that could push his anti-secrecy website further toward oblivion. Australian-born Assange, 40, became a worldwide celebrity and infuriated the US government in 2010 when WikiLeaks released secret video footage and thousands of US diplomatic cables about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Since then,...
08:28 AM, Feb 01, 2012
Los Angeles: Controversial WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will be a guest character and voice on animated TV comedy 'The Simpsons', playing a neighbor of the family after they move from their home in fictional Springfield. Assange's 'brief' guest starring role will be on the show's February 19 program, which marks the 500th episode of 'The Simpsons', said Antonia Coffman, a spokeswoman for the show airing on the Fox television network...
01:19 PM, Jan 31, 2012
Moscow: The Kremlin's English-language television station has revealed that it will be broadcasting Wikileaks founder Julian Assange's new television show. Wikileaks announced earlier this week that Assange was hosting a talk show to begin airing in March, but there was no word on who would carry the show or how it would be produced. RT television announced Wednesday that it would broadcast the show, a series of 10 interviews with...
05:50 PM, Jan 25, 2012
