Julian Assange
From wikipedia:
Julian Paul Assange (/əˈsɒnʒ/; born Julian Paul Hawkins, 3 July 1971) is an Australian computer programmer and the founder of WikiLeaks, an organisation which he founded in 2006. He has won accolades including the Sam Adams Award and Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism.
Assange founded WikiLeaks in 2006, but came to global prominence in 2010, when WikiLeaks published a series of leaks provided by Chelsea Manning. These leaks included the Collateral Murder video (April 2010), the Afghanistan war logs (July 2010), the Iraq war logs (October 2010), and CableGate (November 2010). Following the 2010 leaks, the United States government launched a criminal investigation into WikiLeaks and asked allied nations for assistance.
In November 2010, a request was made for Assange’s extradition to Sweden, where he had been questioned months earlier over allegations of sexual assault and rape. Assange continued to deny the allegations, and expressed concern that he would be extradited from Sweden to the United States because of his perceived role in publishing secret American documents. Assange surrendered himself to UK police on 7 December 2010, and was held for ten days in solitary confinement before being released on bail. Having been unsuccessful in his challenge to the extradition proceedings, he breached his bail and absconded. He was granted asylum by Ecuador in August 2012. He has since remained in the Embassy of Ecuador in London, and is free to leave, although it is likely that he would then be arrested for the criminal offence of breaching his bail conditions. On 19 May 2017, the Swedish prosecutors dropped the investigation into rape accusations against Assange and applied to revoke his arrest warrant, although the Metropolitan Police have indicated that an arrest warrant is still in force for Assange’s failure to surrender himself to the British court.
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There are just an enourmous amount of sources available on Julian, if anyone could help me compile them with a PR I would really appreciate it
- Julian Assange on Wikipedia
- Wikileaks on Wikipedia
- wikileaks.org
- Julian Assange on Wikiquote
- 1995-2002 - Julian Assange’s messages to the Cypherpunk Mailing List
- 27-Dec-2010 Wired Magazine - 2010: The Year the Internet Went to War by David Kravets
- Oct 2013 Vanity Fair The Man Who Came to Dinner by Sarah Ellison
- 18-Oct-2016 The Telegraph (UK) - Ecuador ‘cuts Julian Assange’s internet access’ after Hillary Clinton leaks
- 21-Aug-2017 New Yorker Magazine - Julian Assange, a Man Without a Country by Raffi Khatchadourian
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