Pamela Anderson wants an 11th hour face-to-face meeting with President Donald Trump in a last ditch bid to grab a presidential pardon for friend and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. The former Baywatch star, 53, knows that come January 20 – Joe Biden‘s inauguration and Trump’s exit – the chances of securing Assange’s freedom on espionage … Read more
Top UN anti-torture expert demands UK ‘immediately’ releases WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange from Belmarsh prison ahead of his extradition hearing Top UN anti-torture expert urged Britain to release Julian Assange from prison Assange was first arrested in the UK in 2010 and is now being held in Belmarsh He is wanted in US for conspiring … Read more
Julian Assange will learn on January 4 whether he will be sent to US to face hacking charges that could see him jailed for 175 years He faces 18 charges including conspiracy to expose military secrets He faces up to 175 years in prison if convicted of espionage offences in the US The Wikileaks founder … Read more
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange would have to be at death’s door to escape the ‘Supermax’ jail regime if convicted in the US, a court has heard. Assange is fighting extradition on charges relating to leaks of classified documents allegedly exposing US war crimes and abuse. The Old Bailey has heard evidence of the 49-year-old’s mental … Read more
Julian Assange binge-watched footage of war criminal killing himself in court after losing his case, extradition hearing is told Dr Sondra Crosby told court of Assange’s mental health in Ecuadorian Embassy She said he watched the suicide of Slobodan Praljak who drank cyanide Assange was said to be ‘obsessed’ and analysed the man’s face as he was … Read more
Julian Assange binge-watched footage of war criminal killing himself in court after losing his case, extradition hearing is told Dr Sondra Crosby told court of Assange’s mental health in Ecuadorian Embassy She said he watched the suicide of Slobodan Praljak who drank cyanide Assange was said to be ‘obsessed’ and analysed the man’s face as he was … Read more
Donald Trump ‘offered WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange a win-win deal to avoid extradition to US if he revealed source of the hacking of Democratic party emails’, court hears Jennifer Robinson, one Assange’s lawyer’s, made statement at Old Bailey today She recalled a meeting with two Trump allies in Ecuadorian embassy in 2017 She claimed they … Read more
WikiLeaks withheld 15,000 documents about the Afghanistan war to ‘protect innocents’ from harm, the Old Bailey heard today Former Der Spiegel reporter John Goetz told Julian Assange’s extradition hearing that WikiLeaks was ‘removing bad stuff’ to ensure no one was put at risk. Assange, 49, is wanted in the US for allegedly conspiring with army … Read more
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is being persecuted by Donald Trump because of the President’s ‘considerable personal antipathy’ to Barack Obama, a professor of peace studies told his extradition hearing in London today. Professor Paul Rogers called Assange’s prosecution politically motivated, and said his political opinions put him in the ‘crosshairs’ of the Trump administration. Assange, 49, … Read more
Law firm that worked for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange facing multi-million pound legal claim By Ben Harrington, Financial Mail on Sunday Published: 21:58 BST, 15 August 2020 | Updated: 22:30 BST, 15 August 2020 A law firm that worked for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is facing a multi-million pound legal claim. Howard Kennedy, which also … Read more