The lawyer of Julian Assange, the founder of whistleblower website Wikileaks, has said that the journalist faces the threat of the death penalty or detention at Guantanamo Bay if he is extradited to Sweden on accusations of rape and sexual assault. "Indeed, if Assange were rendered to the USA, without assurances that the death penalty would not be carried out, there is a real risk that he could be made subject to the death penalty," his lawyer said.
The Pentagon has termed as 'ridiculous' the notion that its officials were involved in recent rape allegations against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Recently, Swedish authorities had issued an arrest warrant against Assange, but they revoked it soon after. "Any thought that the defence department may be part of such a conspiracy (rape allegations against Assange) is absurd," Pentagon spokesperson Bryan Whitman said, adding, "No. That's ridiculous."
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Monday expressed fears in a British court that he could be taken against his will to the United States and executed if he is extradited to Sweden.
Already almost 100 days in near isolation in the heart of London, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange predicts he may have to "spend up to year" of being holed up in Ecuador's embassy in London.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has revealed that he has sent out 100,000 encrypted versions of secret files in case anything happens to him.Assange acknowledged that there had been death threats against him and his colleagues because of the damaging leaks. The encrypted filed are the insurance policy he had put in place to ensure that his whistle-blowing website will not be silenced, whatever drastic steps may be taken by his enemies.
A number of social media users suggested it was an assassination attempt "ordered" by Hillary Clinton, while others thought US President Barack Obama was involved.
Britain's Supreme Court on Friday said it will hear an appeal by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange against his extradition to Sweden where he is accused of rape and sexual assault.
The website will, however, not release this material during the court martial of its source, US Army Private Bradley Manning, according to a report by The Age on Tuesday.
Ecuador on Thursday granted political asylum to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, setting stage for an unprecedented diplomatic stand-off with the UK, which has threatened to extradite him to Sweden come what may.
Australia has said it would not pursue the case of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange with the United States any further as it no longer serves the country's interests.
A decision on the extradition of WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange from the UK to Sweden will be announced by a London court on February 24, even as his lawyers doubted a fair trial in the Scandinavian country.
United States Vice President Joseph Biden has described WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange as a 'high-tech terrorist' who has put lives of people in jeopardy, and has said Washington is exploring what charges could be slapped against him.
Attempts by the United States to legally nab Julian Assange are proving to be unsuccessful as prosecutors have failed to find evidence that the WikiLeaks founder in any way forced army private Bradley Manning to leak government documents.
The British government has been accused of spying on WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, sparking an outrage among civil rights campaigners in the country.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Thursday night dismissed the extradition notice served on him earlier in the day by Scotland Yard, saying he "almost certainly will not" attend a police station after breaching bail conditions.
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange believes that the Pentagon could be behind the false rape charges that were filed against him on Friday by Swedish prosecutors and then withdrawn after a few hours. "I don't know who is behind this but we have been warned that the Pentagon plans to use dirty tricks to spoil things for us," Assange told Swedish daily Aftonbladet. So far, Pentagon has not reacted to the charge.
After making a dramatic appeal for political asylum at the Ecuador embassy in Knightsbridge, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has said he was "grateful" to the government of the south American country for considering his application. After Assange arrived in the embassy on Tuesday afternoon and sought political asylum, the Ecuador embassy said that he was "under the protection of the Ecuadorian government".
Mother of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has lashed out at Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard and dubbed her as a "sycophant" of the United States.
In a last ditch effort to block his extradition, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has sought reopening of his extradition case, days after Britain's Supreme Court ruled that the Swedish request had been "lawfully made".
Warning that Assange's legal pursuit in Sweden had "political motivations", his lawyer Marx Stephens said that WikiLeaks still held secret material, which would be released if it needed to protect itself.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Monday won the right to petition the UK Supreme Court in his fight against extradition to Sweden on rape allegation.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who dramatically sought sanctuary in the Ecuador embassy and applied for political asylum, could be arrested since he has breached one of his bail conditions, police said on Wednesday.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, currently holed up in Ecuador's embassy in London, on Friday expressed fear that he may be sent to the United States to face possible criminal charges punishable by death for publishing some 250,000 leaked American diplomatic cables.
Sweden's appeal against the bail granted to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on rape charges will be heard in the high court in London on Thursday, even as his lawyers complained that the prison authorities were making it difficult for them to meet him for preparing his legal case.
After the Swedish foreign ministry said that a UN panel will declare WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's detention illegal, Ecuador asked for a compensation for housing Assange in its London embassy.
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy in London for the past one year, on Wednesday vowed to remain there even if accusations of sex crimes against him are dropped in Sweden.
Emerging a free man, Julian told a crowd of journalists: "It's great to feel the fresh air of London again. I thank all the people around the world who had faith in me".
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, currently hold up in Ecuador embassy in London, will stand for the Senate in Victoria for the September federal poll as the lead candidate of a newly formed WikiLeaks Party.
The extradition case of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, wanted in the US over the alleged leak of classified documents related to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, was sent to UK Home Secretary Priti Patel on Wednesday.
Giving out a clean chit to WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange, the Australian police has said that it did not find any breach of law by the whistleblower in his home country.
British socialite Jemima Khan has offered to help Wikileaks founder Julian Assange after he was jailed over allegations of sexual misconduct originating from Sweden. "I am here because I believe in the principle of the human right to freedom of information and our right to be told the truth," she added. Four others, including film director Ken Loach, joined Khan to raise the surety amount.
Granting him bail on an amount of 240,000 pounds, the court ordered Assange to adhere to strict bail conditions.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange should be freed, a UN panel ruled as it called on the UK and Sweden to compensate the whistleblower for his "arbitrary detention".
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Wednesday lost his appeal against extradition from the United Kingdom to Sweden to face charges of rape and sexual assault in that country.
Hitting back at Mayawati who wants him to be put in a "mental asylum", WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Tuesday said that the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister needed to take up her case with the United States if she has a problem with the contents of American diplomatic cables that painted her as an "egomaniac."
The 45-year-old Australian national has been living in the embassy for more than four years after he was granted political asylum by Ecuador amid fears he will be extradited to the United States and questioned over the release of 500,000 secret military files on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq by his controversial website.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has developed a life threatening heart defect and a chronic lung condition during his years confined to the Ecuadorian embassy in southwest London, according to a report.
It could prove to be a major breakthrough in the protracted standoff between 44-year-old Assange and Sweden, where he is wanted in relation to a 2010 rape allegation.
Assange is wanted in the US on the charges of conspiring with Chelsea Manning, an American activist and whistleblower, to commit computer intrusion into the Department of Defence network to steal classified documents, namely Afghan and Iraq war logs and secret Department of State cables.
Reacting to Whistle-blower website WikiLeaks's recent clarifications on Bharatiya Janata Party leader Narendra Modi, party leader Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Monday said that Modi did not need a certificate from Julian Assange or Wikileaks for winning the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.
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