UK govt approves extradition of WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange; he plans to appeal
World | June 17, 2022 16:34 ISTUK government approves extradition of WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange to US on spying charges
UK government approves extradition of WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange to US on spying charges
The decision now rests with Interior Minister Priti Patel. Julian Assange's lawyers may still appeal to the High Court if she approves the extradition.
A British judge on Monday rejected the United States’ request to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to face espionage charges, saying he was likely to kill himself if held under harsh U.S. prison conditions.
He was previously charged last month on one count of conspiring with ex-intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning to gain access to the Pentagon network.
Assange, infamous across the globe for publishing state secrets that embarrassed governments had been under the protection of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London for almost seven years.
During a meeting with then US ambassador, Rahul Gandhi had said saffron terror was a bigger threat than the Lashkar-e-Taiba, claimed the BJP quoting a telegram sourced from Wikileaks.
Ecuador gave Assange political asylum after he sought refuge in the embassy in 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden for investigation of sex-related claims.
Assange, an Australian, became an Ecuadoran citizen on December 12.
President Donald Trump’s oldest son communicated with the Twitter account behind WikiLeaks, exchanging direct messages during the 2016 election campaign.
WikiLeaks has claimed that America’s intelligence agency CIA is using technology provider Cross Match Technologies to ‘secretly’ extract biometric information
Assange, who appeared on the balcony of his Ecuadorean embassy hideout in London this evening, said he will not "forgive" those who "slandered" him.
In a statement issued here, the Swedish Prosecution Authority said that Marianne Ny ‘has discontinue the investigation’ against the Australian computer programmer.
The US National Security Agency (NSA) has been spying on Pakistan's mobile networks, WikiLeaks has said.
WikiLeaks’ most recent revelation of CIA cyber-tools uncovers a strategy utilized by the agency to conceal its digital tracks, conceivably ruining the disguise on hacking operations aimed at gathering intelligence on foreign targets, the media
In what is possibly the largest ever leak of CIA documents in history, anti-secrecy organisation WikiLeaks on Tuesday released thousands of documents describing sophisticated software tools and techniques used by the agency to break into
WikiLeaks, the international organisation that publishes secret information, has released a seven-page document allegedly revealing that the US Central Intelligence Agency ordered its spies to gather information on the 2012 French presidential electi
Outgoing US President Barack Obama on Tuesday commuted the prison sentence of Chelsea Manning, who had leaked scores of classified Army documents to WikiLeaks and is serving 35 years jail term, allowing her to go free nearly three decades early.
Sparking a fresh controversy, anti-secrecy site WikiLeaks has threatened to make the private details public of millions of people who have 'verified' Twitter accounts.
Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, will be questioned in the London-based Ecuadorian embassy on November 14 over an allegation of rape dating back to 2010.
In another potentially embarrassing document dump targeting the Democrats just ahead of November 8 presidential elections, the WikiLeaks on Friday revealed US President Barack Obama's private e-mail address by publishing hacked e-mails.
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