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
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
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
Toronto: When Australian film director Robert Connolly went looking for some truth about WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange, he didn't turn to government documents or leaked emails of the sort that Assange's website is famous for making public. Instead, he focused on Assange's past as a teenage hacker and young father growing up in suburban Melbourne, Australia, more than a decade before the launch of the website that has made him...
12:35 PM, Sep 15, 2012
London: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Sunday appeared in public for the first time since he took refuge inside Ecuador's embassy in London two months ago. Beginning his address from the embassy's balcony, Assange said, "I am here today because I cannot be there with you today." "US poses a threat to WikiLeaks and freedom of speech," Assange said as the crowd cheered for him. He said that he has...
07:13 PM, Aug 19, 2012
The British government says it will not make it easy for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to leave the country. ...
08:22 PM, Aug 17, 2012
London: Britain will not allow Julian Assange safe passage out of the country, Foreign Secretary William Hague said after Ecuador granted the Wikileaks founder political asylum. British authorities will continue to seek Assange's extradition to Sweden, Hague said on Thursday. "Assange having exhausted all options of appeal, the British authorities are under a binding obligation to extradite him, Xinhua quoted the foreign secretary as saying. "We must carry out that...
08:26 AM, Aug 17, 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
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
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
