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The seven-year Swedish preliminary investigation into rape allegations against Julian Assange has been brought to an end, prosecutors announced Friday. Launched in 2006, WikiLeaks had garnered worldwide attention in early 2010 with its massive release of classified US military documents sourced by Chelsea Manning. Assange won thousands of admirers, with many applauding his willingness to […]
Sweden has dropped its investigation into Julian Assange over allegations of rape, dramatically changing the plot in a standoff that has lasted seven years. The charges were first leveled at the WikiLeaks founder in 2010, causing him to seek asylum at the Ecuadorian embassy in 2012 after losing a series of appeals. He’s been sequestered […]
MINDHORN (15, 89mins) Director: Sean Foley Stars: Julian Barratt, Simon Farnaby, Essie Davis, Andrea Riseborough, Russell Tovey You know, the one with Richard Thornycroft – aka Britain’s very own David Hasselhoff – as a smoothy-chops detective on the Isle Of Man with a robotic eye allowing him to literally “see the truth”. Think Bergerac meets […]
Officials reportedly claim the Department of Justice is ready to file arrest charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Press advocates warn that if the US goes after the pro-transparency publisher, they could go after other news outlets as well. On Thursday, CNN and the Washington Post cited unnamed US officials as having information that the […]
Photo: AP Citing unnamed American officials, CNN reports that the United States is preparing charges to arrest WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who has spent the last four years alive but clearlybored in Ecuador’s London embassy. Advertisement According to the network, authorities “believe they have found a way to move forward” in prosecuting Assange after years […]
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange speaks on the balcony of the Ecuadorean Embassy in London on February 5, 2016 (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth) The Brits are having an election on June 8th, as Prime Minister Theresa May looks to shore up support before things really get messy with Brexit. But an unlikely person has just floated the […]
Showtime has picked up Risk, a documentary about Julian Assange and WikiLeaks by Citizenfour director Laura Poitras that debuted at Cannes last year. The news of Showtime debuting Risk came along with a trailer teasing the documentary’s connection to the 2016 elections and the hacked Democratic National Committee emails — a facet that Poitras has added to […]
The former UKIP leader left the Knightsbridge building around midday, where Assange has been holed up for the last five years. Farage reportedly spent around 40 minutes in the building and was accompanied by Christian Mitchell, the head of operations at radio station LBC, where Farage hosts a regular show. Erm, so, Nigel Farage was […]
Agence France-Presse/Niklas Halle’n Quito (AFP) – Oil-rich Ecuador votes Sunday in general elections that could lead to fugitive Wikileaks founder Julian Assange being evicted from the country’s London embassy. Socialist presidential candidate Lenin Moreno, who leads in opinion polls, favors continuing to grant the Australian whistleblower asylum, which was granted to him under outgoing leader […]
Image: Getty Ecuador is extremely ready for its adult son and growing annoyance, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, to move of out of the country’s London embassy—like as soon as possible. Advertisement How soon? “We would like the next step to be tomorrow,” Ecuador’s foreign minister Guillaume Long said in an interview with The Guardian, as […]
