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Manning offers to plea guilty to reduced charges

A United States Army private charged with sending mountains of classified documents to the secret-spilling website WikiLeaks has offered to take responsibility for the leak by pleading guilty to reduced charges in a move that military justice experts yesterday called unusual and potentially More >

Assange supporters waiting to learn fate of funds

LONDON—Supporters of Julian Assange are waiting to find out if they will lose the 140,000 pounds ($225,000) they put up in bail surety money because the WikiLeaks founder has sought political asylum in Ecuador’s Embassy in London. Assange, 41, has been holed up in the embassy since June 19 as part More >

Internet attacks blocked access to Swedish websites

Internet attacks blocked access to several popular Swedish websites for part of Monday and local police have linked the outage to the controversy surrounding WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. “Every time something happens in the Assange affair there are more attacks on the internet in Sweden,” a More >

Lawyer says US preparing case against Assange

US prosecutors are secretly preparing a case against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for publishing a cache of sensitive diplomatic cables, his lawyer Baltazar Garzon said on Wednesday. The 41-year-old Australian has been holed up in Ecuador’s embassy in London since June after losing a legal More >

Hague says Ecuador must resume talks on Assange

Britain’s Foreign Secretary William Hague says Ecuador must quickly resume negotiations over the fate of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Assange, who is seeking to avoid extradition to Sweden for questioning over sex crimes allegations, has been sheltering inside Ecuador’s embassy in London – More >

Assange supporter hit by Pro-WikiLeaks hackers

Hackers claiming allegiance to the Anonymous movement of cyber-rebels have defaced the website of a former British cabinet minister in solidarity with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. But former Wales and Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Hain said Sunday (local time) that the attackers don’t seem More >

UK websites target by Assange supporters

The Anonymous cyber-hacking group has claimed responsibility for a series of attempted attacks on British government websites, in support of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Anonymous said on Twitter it had launched the attacks in support of Mr Assange, who is holed up in the London embassy of More >

Julian Assange witch-hunt claims denied by US

The United States have denied Julian Assange’s assertion that Washington is orchestrating a “witch-hunt” for him, saying the WikiLeaks founder is making “wild” claims to deflect attention. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland says the United States has nothing to do with attempts by More >

UK warned it will not allow Assange safe passage

Britain has warned it will not allow Julian Assange safe passage out of the country after the WikiLeaks founder was granted political asylum by Ecuador. The South American country, which has been harbouring Assange in London, last night declared his own government in Australia had failed to More >

Court victory for WikiLeaks in fight against VISA

LONDON—A lawyer for WikiLeaks’ Icelandic payment processor says that the secret-spilling site has won an important court battle against the financial blockade imposed by VISA and MasterCard.

Attorney Sveinn Andri Sveinsson says that an Icelandic court has ordered VISA and MasterCard’s local More >

Concerns that Assange asylum ‘may harm Ecuador’

Ecuador’s ambassador to Washington has expressed concerns that granting political asylum to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange could be used to discredit Quito in the US.

“Giving asylum to Assange would be used as ammunition to attack the country,” Ambassador Nathalie Cely said in a radio More >

Two million Syrian emails to be published by WikiLeaks

WikiLeaks says it is publishing over two million emails from Syrian political figures dating back to 2006 but also covering the period of the crackdown on dissent by Syria’s regime.

“JUST now … WikiLeaks began publishing the Syria files, more than two million emails from Syrian political figures, More >

‘Difficult choice’ for Assange, Lawyer says

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange faced a “difficult choice” in defying a British police order for extradition to Sweden, one of his lawyers said.

ASSANGE was confronted with risks no matter which path he took and is gambling that Ecuador will look sympathetically at his request for political More >

Bradley Manning WikiLeaks suspect wins battle

A US military judge has ordered prosecutors to share more documents with WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning after defence lawyers accused them of hiding information that could help their client’s case.

FOR months, Manning’s defence team has demanded access to reports by government agencies, More >

Julian Assange asks UK Supreme court to reopen case

WIKILEAKS chief Julian Assange has asked Britain’s Supreme Court to reopen his extradition case, an unusual legal manoeuvre aimed at blocking his removal to Sweden.

British Supreme Court spokesman Ben Wilson confirmed today that papers had been lodged in the high-profile case, which has dragged More >

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