If Julian Assange Is A Criminal, So Is The Entire Corporate Press
Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes Convicting Assange for publishing classified materials sets a dangerous precedent for journalists and undermines the First Amendment. Julian Assange is now a free man, but he should never have been charged with a crime to begin with. The Wikileaks founder, who has spent the last five years in a British […]
Julian Assange is free, but his case is a grim reminder of the fragility of press freedom | Kenan Malik
IIt was a messy ending to a messy story. Julian Assange was released from Belmarsh prison last week and boarded a flight to the US-administered Pacific island of Saipan. There, under a special agreement with US authorities, he pleaded guilty in court to illegally obtaining and disclosing classified documents and received in return a five-year […]
SUSPICIOUS WikiLeaks DNC archive vanishes Julian Assange
Shortly after WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, responsible for the largest government leak in U.S. history, accepted a plea deal and was released from prison, the entire archive of 20,000 leaked Democratic National Committee emails suddenly disappeared. Coincidence? Glenn Beck I do not think so. Does this WikiLeaks ‘server error’ have anything to do with Julian […]
WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange Lands In Australia After 14-Year Legal Battle
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange (center) gestures as he arrives at Canberra Airport in Canberra, Australia, June 26, 2024. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange returned to his native Australia as a free man after appearing in the Northern Mariana Islands Federal District Court in Saipan on Wednesday. Assange, who pleaded guilty to felony charges under the Espionage […]
Julian Assange Lands in Australia After 14 Year Legal Battle
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange stepped off a private jet in Canberra, Australia late Wednesday night local time, freeing himself after accepting a plea deal with a US court. Julian Assange flew from the US territory of Saipan in the Northern Mariana Islands to the Australian capital of Canberra on Wednesday. His jet, which flew to […]
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange returns to Australia after US legal battle ends
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange returned to his native Australia on a chartered plane on Wednesday, hours after pleading guilty to obtaining and publishing U.S. military secrets in a deal with Justice Department prosecutors, ending a protracted legal battle. The years-long criminal case involving international conspiracy came to a surprise conclusion in highly unusual circumstances when […]
Julian Assange released, sentenced to time served as part of US plea deal
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange pleaded guilty on Wednesday and was sentenced to time served as part of an agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice to end his prison sentence. Assange, an Australian publisher, pleaded guilty Wednesday morning in federal court in Saipan, the capital of the Northern Mariana Islands, a U.S. territory in the […]
A win for Julian Assange and a loss for press freedom? – podcast | News
Julian Assange has been in hiding for over a decade. For seven years he was held captive in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, refusing to leave for fear of arrest. Finally, he was transferred to Belmarsh prison, where he was held. He spent 23 hours a day in a tiny solitary confinement, facing charges that […]
WikiLeaks’s Julian Assange pleads guilty in deal with US that secures his freedom and ends legal fight
SAIPAN, Northern Mariana Islands — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange pleaded guilty to a single felony charge for publishing U.S. military secrets in a deal with Justice Department prosecutors that secures his freedom and concludes a drawn-out legal saga that raised divisive questions about press freedom and national security. The plea was entered Wednesday morning in federal court in Saipan, […]
White House denies involvement in Julian Assange deal
A White House spokesman said Julian Assange, 52, would likely be returned to his native Australia as a free man soon, but not because of President Joe Biden. After more than a decade spent holed up in embassies and jail, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has finally reached a plea deal with U.S. authorities, according to […]