Pale but defiant, Julian Assange stepped into the daylight on the balcony of the Ecuadorean embassy in London and declared an “important victory”. This was after Sweden dropped its seven-year investigation into sex offence allegations. The Wikileaks founder said his legal battle wasn’t over, warning “the proper war is just commencing”. He’s still holed up…
Thousands of documents said to come from the CIA’s Center for Cyber Intelligence have been published online by Wikileaks.
He promised to hand himself in if Chelsea Manning was released. But despite President Obama’s surprise announcement, lawyers for the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange say at the moment he’s going nowhere.
Unveiling a draft Investigatory Powers Bill, Home Secretary Theresa May tells MPs it represents a “significant departure” from previous proposals dubbed the snoopers’ charter by critics.
Time runs out for Swedish prosecutors to investigate some of the allegations against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. But he is not expected to leave the Ecuadorean embassy any time soon.
The US ambassador to France is called in to explain documents released by Wikileaks that show the US authorities were spying on French President Francois Hollande and two of his predecessors.
Jon Snow
To claim Russian and Chinese intelligence had cracked the encryption of Ed Snowden’s files, without a scintilla of evidence and series of “we don’t knows”, is going some.
In a first for the US military Chelsea Manning, the soldier serving 35-years in prison for sending classified documents to Wikileaks, is to receive hormone therapy as part of her gender reassignment.
They came to the UK to seek refuge – but now exiled Bahraini democracy activists have been alarmed to find their online activities may have been under surveillance by the government of Bahrain.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange – hiding for two years in the Ecuadorian embassy – is in “a prison cell with internet access” and “yearns to walk in the fresh air,” says a close friend.
Exclusive: Tony Blair’s government allowed America to store and analyse the email, mobile phone and internet records of potentially millions of innocent Britons, Channel 4 News can reveal.
A few years back it would have been a no-brainer for Edward Snowden that WikiLeaks was the right forum for his expose – but it’s no longer the destination for whistleblowers.
Alex Thomson
A Wikileaks disclosure of an email from a military officer reveals why special foreign forces were in Syria in 2011 – and why back then, there was caution about airstrikes.
What will win votes in Australia’s election? Dressing up as 80s pop star John Farnham and donning a mullet, if Julian Assange is to be believed. Watch his starring role in an election YouTube spoof.
The US Army soldier sentenced to 35 years for giving classified documents to Wikileaks says he wants to live the rest of his life as a woman.