Tag: Assange

Assange hearing in Sweden to decide extradition request

STOCKHOLM: A Swedish court heard arguments Monday before deciding if prosecutors can proceed to request Julian Assange's extradition from Britain, after a 2010 rape...

Sweden reopens rape probe against Assange

STOCKHOLM: Swedish prosecutors said Monday they were reopening a 2010 rape investigation against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, hoping to bring him to justice before the...

Assange jailed for 50 weeks for UK bail breach

STOCKHOLM: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was sentenced Wednesday to 50 weeks in jail for breaching a British court order seven years ago, when he...

Ecuador’s president says Assange tried to use its embassy to spy

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange repeatedly violated his asylum conditions and tried to use the Ecuadorian embassy in London as a center for spying, Ecuador’s...

Assange’s lawyer says he would fight charges

LONDON: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will not willingly travel to the United States to face charges filed under seal against him, one of his...

Judge to rule on Assange’s bid to escape legal action in...

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will hear today whether his legal bid to halt action against him for breaching bail has been successful, in a...

Court in UK to rule on lifting Assange arrest warrant

LONDON: A British court is to decide on Tuesday whether to lift a UK arrest warrant for Julian Assange, potentially paving the way for...

Britain refuses Assange’s bid for diplomatic status

LONDON: The British Foreign Office rejected an Ecuadorian government request to grant the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange diplomatic status in a bid to bring...

Trump campaign analytics company contacted Wikileaks ‘for Hillary Clinton’s deleted emails’,...

Julian Assange, the editor of Wikileaks, confirmed on Wednesday that his group was approached by Cambridge Analytica, a data firm working for Donald Trump's...

Trump doubtful as US spy chiefs to testify on Russian hacking

Top US spy chiefs will testify in Congress on Thursday, on alleged Russian interference in the US election as President-elect Donald Trump continued to...

WikiLeaks founder Assange appeals European arrest warrant

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has appealed a Stockholm district court's decision to maintain a European arrest warrant against him over a 2010 rape allegation,...