DOJ charges WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange with espionage

May 24th, 20190 WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Justice Department unveiled 17 new criminal charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Thursday, saying he unlawfully published the names of classified sources and conspired with and assisted ex-Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning in obtaining access to classified information. The...

Pardoning Assange would be the first step back toward rule of law

April 12th, 20190 On April 11, the ongoing saga of journalist and transparency activist Julian Assange took a dangerous turn. Ecuador's president, Lenin Moreno, revoked his asylum in that country's London embassy. British police immediately arrested him — supposedly pursuant to his "crime" of jumping bail on an invalid arrest warrant in an investigation...

Julian Assenge forcibly removed from Ecuadorian embassy, arrested in London

April 11th, 20190 LONDON, UK —Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange was forcibly removed from the Ecuadorian embassy in London on Thursday, bringing his seven-year stay to a dramatic and unexpected end. Video showed Assange with a full white beard being escorted out by police into a nearby van. Assange was arrested for skipping bail in the UK in 2012, at...