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
Dowagers to disco: Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes raises prospect of setting the show in the 1970s to see the fate of Lord Grantham’s heirs Downton Abbey’s creator has raised prospect of reviving the historical drama Julian Fellowes wants to set the drama in the 1970s to see out the Thatcher years He said it … 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
DIRECTOR DEALS: Superdry founder Julian Dunkerton buys £1.36m worth of company’s shares By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:51 BST, 25 September 2020 | Updated: 22:00 BST, 25 September 2020 Superdry’s founder and boss Julian Dunkerton shelled out around £1.36million on shares this week. Dunkerton, 55, hoovered up about 1m shares in multiple … 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
Julian Assange’s extradition hearing has been halted over fears a prosecuting lawyer may have been exposed to coronavirus. The Wikileaks founder, 49, is wanted in the US for allegedly conspiring with army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning to expose military secrets between January and May 2010. The husband of a junior prosecuting lawyer started suffering ‘Covid-like … 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