London: China is the "technological enemy" of WikiLeaks and not the United States, according to Julian Assange, the founder of the whistle-blower website which is fighting a running battle to penetrate the aggressive and sophisticated Chinese censorship. "China is the worst offender," when it comes to censorship, says the controversial Australian hacker, now on bail in Britain fighting attempts to extradite him to Sweden over claims of sexual assaults. The...
11:45 AM, Jan 14, 2011
London: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, wanted in Sweden over claims he sexually assaulted two women, appeared in a court on Tuesday and expressed his readiness to fight extradition from the UK. The defence team of the 39-year-old Australian, who denies the charges, was ready for a two-day extradition case, which was set for February 7 and 8 during a hearing at a court here, his lawyer Geoffrey Robertson said. District...
06:29 PM, Jan 11, 2011
London: Julian Assange is due to appear in court again in the extradition case. The whistle-blower website founder will be produced in a London court on Tuesday. He has been booked for sexual offences. The prime issue will be the confirmation of bail for him and his supporters expect that as clearly he hasn't absconded as the Swedish prosecutor had argued. The question then before the court is that if...
07:25 AM, Jan 11, 2011
Washington: A US court has ordered Twitter to hand over details of the accounts of WikiLeaks and several supporters as part of a criminal investigation into the release of hundreds of thousands of confidential documents. The December 14 subpoena obtained by the US Department of Justice and published by online magazine Salon.com on Friday said the records sought from the microblogging website were "relevant to an ongoing criminal investigation." It...
10:55 AM, Jan 09, 2011
London: US officials have issued a subpoena to demand details about WikiLeaks' Twitter account, the group announced on Saturday, adding that it suspected other American Internet companies were also being ordered to hand over information about its activities. In a statement, WikiLeaks said US investigators had gone to the San Francisco-based Twitter Inc to demand the private messages, contact information and other personal details of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and...
10:05 PM, Jan 08, 2011
London: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has signed a book deal with a British publisher to give a "highly personal" account of his life story, it was announced on Friday. Assange, who is currently on bail in Britain pending court proceedings over an extradition request from Sweden on assault charges, said he hoped the book would prove to be a "unifying document". Publishers Canongate Books, based in Edinburgh, Scotland, said it...
06:09 PM, Jan 08, 2011
Sydney: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is hiring a public relations firm after a series of damaging blows to his image, a media report said in Sydney on Saturday. Assange, who is on bail in Britain and facing extradition to Sweden over sexual assault allegations, has taken a battering in the media in recent weeks as his personal life is scrutinised, the Australian news agency AAP reported. Assange's team has decided...
05:36 PM, Jan 08, 2011
New Delhi: According to the Global Language Monitor, the word 'WikiLeaks' appeared sporadically in the global media in 2006. But now it has been cited more than 300 million times, even with a quick Google search. This after it met the requisite criteria of geographic reach as well as "depth and breadth" of recorded usage of the English language. The word 'wiki' is Hawaiian in origin and is usually defined...
10:44 AM, Dec 28, 2010
London: US officials panicked on hearing a rumour that a New Zealand cabinet minister was hosting the screening of documentary maker Michael Moore's film "Fahrenheit 9/11" and they termed it a "potential fiasco", reveals a US cable that was put out by WikiLeaks. The classified cable from the US embassy in Wellington in 2003 reports a string of calls to the New Zealand prime minister's office and to the minister...
03:27 PM, Dec 23, 2010
London: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has sold his memoirs to two publishing houses and is expected to have a manuscript ready in March, Britain's Guardian newspaper reported. The Guardian, one of the newspapers to whom WikiLeaks has provided some of the secret material it has acquired, said Assange is understood to have sold his memoirs, to publishers Canongate in Britain and Knopf in the United States, part of the Random...
12:54 PM, Dec 22, 2010
New Delhi: Speaking out for the first time on sexual assault charges, Wikileaks founder defended himself saying he a gentleman and not a sexual predator. In an interview to the BBC, Julian Assange defended his organisation and also explained why he is fighting extradition to Sweden over sexual assault allegations. Assange called himself a gentleman in that interview, saying that the two women concerned were worried about contracting a sexually...
09:37 AM, Dec 22, 2010
Los Angeles: It happened to Xerox and more recently to Google, and now "wikileaks" has joined the list of proper names that are common enough to enter the English language as their own word. Texas-based Global Language Monitor on Tuesday said the website WikiLeaks, which has publicly released thousands of confidential U.S. government documents, has been referred to by so many people that it has met the criteria of reach,...
09:24 AM, Dec 22, 2010
London: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, fighting a Swedish extradition warrant, on Tuesday said he fears that he would not get "natural justice" in Sweden where the police "bamboozled" two women to accuse him of sexual assault. The 39-year-old Australian is currently free on bail in the UK while facing the extradition proceedings to Sweden. Sweden wants Britain to extradite Assange to face questioning over allegations from two Swedish women that...
06:46 PM, Dec 21, 2010
London: Julian Assange, the controversial WikiLeaks founder, had an affair with a 16-year-old girl when he was 18 and fathered a boy who is now 20 years old, a media report said Monday. The revelation by the Daily Mail throws new light on Assange's formative teenage years. It is an irony that even as the whistleblower website's release of thousands of secret US documents has placed him at the centre...
01:05 PM, Dec 21, 2010
London: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has claimed that he receives death threats from US soldiers regularly, a media report said on Monday. He also said that a statement on the steps of the high court here last week after he was released on bail was cut short because police feared he would be assassinated, the Daily Telegraph reported. Australia-born Assange, 39, claimed his son Daniel, 20, and his lawyer have...
11:39 PM, Dec 20, 2010
London: Reporters covering court cases should be allowed to send messages to the Twitter micro-blogging site, a senior British legal official said on Monday, clarifying rules after hearings involving WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Supporters and media at a bail hearing for Assange last week were allowed to use Twitter from inside one courtroom. However, a different judge banned the practice when an appeal went to a higher court two days...
06:39 PM, Dec 20, 2010
Washington: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is closer to being a high-tech terrorist, even as the US is yet to determine the type of charges to be framed against him, Vice-President Joe Biden said on Sunday. "I would argue that it's closer to being a high-tech terrorist than the Pentagon papers," Biden told the NBC News in an interview. "This guy (Assange) has done things that have damaged and put in...
09:39 AM, Dec 20, 2010
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01:36 PM, Dec 18, 2010
London: Fearing that his freedom may be "short lived", WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said on Friday that the US is preparing to indict him on espionage charges and it was likely that he may be extradited. Assange he had an emotional reunion with his mother at the 600-acre Suffolk estate where he is currently under house arrest after being released on bail, Assange told newsmen: "The US is preparing to...
09:15 AM, Dec 18, 2010
Ellingham, England: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said on Friday that he was the target of an aggressive US investigation and feared extradition to the United States was "increasingly likely". The 39-year-old Australian computer expert, whom Swedish authorities want to question over alleged sexual offences, has angered the United States by releasing secret diplomatic cables on his website and teaming up with newspapers around the globe to amplify the impact of...
09:04 AM, Dec 18, 2010
