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Former guards of WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning deny abuse

Two of WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning’s former prison guards have denied abusing him in custody, and described an incident where the US Army private suddenly burst into tears. Manning, 24, is accused of providing Internet site WikiLeaks with hundreds of thousands of US diplomatic cables and classified war logs from…

Manning testifies for first time in WikiLeaks case

The US Army private accused of passing a trove of secret government documents to WikiLeaks testified Thursday for the first time at a pre-trial hearing before a military judge. Bradley Manning, 24, looked nervous and his voice trembled slightly as he began to answer questions about his detention in a…

WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning may speak at pre-trial hearing

FORT MEADE, Maryland — A US Army private accused of passing a cache of confidential government documents to the secret-spilling WikiLeaks website is expected to testify during a new round of pre-trial hearings that began Tuesday. Bradley Manning, 24, could spend the rest of his life in prison if convicted…

Manning enters partial guilty plea in WikiLeaks case

Defence lawyer tells hearing soldier wants to offer guilty plea for some offences in US government’s case against him Bradley Manning, the US soldier who is facing life in prison for allegedly having leaked hundreds of thousands of state secrets to WikiLeaks, has indicated publicly for the first time that he…

WikiLeaks releases prisoner treatment manual from Guantanamo Bay

Julian Assange’s WikiLeaks website on Thursday started publishing more than 100 US Department of Defense documents including the first prisoner treatment manual for Guantanamo Bay. The latest release by the anti-secrecy site comes as Assange, who faces charges of rape and sexual assault in Sweden, remains holed up in the…

Ecuador ‘very concerned’ about Assange’s health

Ecuador is “very concerned” about the health of Julian Assange after the WikiLeaks founder lost a lot of weight while staying at the country’s embassy in London, a foreign ministry official said while in Moscow. The deputy foreign minister of Ecuador, Marco Albuja, expressed his concern for Assange as he…

Britain acted like empire over Julian Assange: Ecuador

LONDON — Britain behaved like it was still an empire in its threat to raid Ecuador’s embassy and arrest WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, the Ecuadoran ambassador to London said in an interview broadcast on Sunday. Ana Alban told BBC radio that the threat, made in August just before Ecuador granted…

U.S. to hand over emails in WikiLeaks soldier case

FORT MEADE, Maryland — A US judge ordered prosecutors Wednesday to hand over hundreds of emails by officers overseeing the detention of WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning, who has alleged he suffered mistreatment at a Marine Corps brig. Lawyers for Manning, a US Army private accused of passing a trove of…

Anonymous vows revenge after WikiLeaks launches ‘filthy’ paywall

Nameless hackers with the online protest movement “Anonymous” have turned on longtime ally WikiLeaks for deploying a paywall on its website that blocks access to the site’s trove of formerly secret files unless users donate or tell their friends about WikiLeaks via social media. Calling the tactic “filthy and rotten,”…

Swedish police raid WikiLeaks web host

Swedish police raided the offices of web host PeRiQuito AB (PRQ) on Monday, but one of the company’s highest-profile customers, anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks, was apparently not the target as supporters first thought. PRQ is known for its anonymous web hosting services, and claims that their dedication to free speech is…