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Swedish police link Internet attacks to WikiLeaks founder Assange’s case
Internet attacks blocked access to several popular Swedish websites for part of Monday, local police said, linking 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 national police computer expert, Anders…
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange reveals life inside ‘space station’ embassy
LONDON — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is certain he will one day go to Ecuador, he said in an interview published Sunday, describing his life in the Ecuadoran embassy in London as “like being in a space station”. The Australian activist, 41, has been holed up in the embassy since…
Ecuador says they’re ready to shelter Assange for years
Ecuador said it is prepared to shelter Julian Assange inside its London embassy for years if necessary as it negotiates the WikiLeaks founder’s fate with Britain and Sweden. Assange meanwhile called on the United States to halt its “persecution” of WikiLeaks and its supporters in a video link message at…
Maddow reveals ‘chilling’ WikiLeaks cable written by killed ambassador to Libya
On her show Thursday night, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow explained that the attack on a U.S. consulate in Libya appeared to be the work of an organized jihadist group rather than the act of an angry mob. She noted that Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, who was killed along with three…
WikiLeaks criticized for linking Benghazi attack to Julian Assange case
Tweet says US ‘gave tacit approval for attacks’ by accepting ‘UK siege on Ecudorean embassy’ where Assange is taking refuge WikiLeaks has been accused of crass self-centredness after it intimated that its founder Julian Assange’s current refuge inside the Ecuadorean embassy in London in part explained or even justified Wednesday’s…
Julian Assange threatened legal action against WikiLeaks documentary
Julian Assange threatened legal action against a film festival in an attempt to pressure them not to show a documentary on the history of WikiLeaks. Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, threatened to sue the South by Southwest (SXSW) festival in the United States if they broadcast the documentary, WikiLeaks: Secrets and…
Bradley Manning will go on trial February 4, 2013
US Army Private Bradley Manning will go on trial on February 4 of next year over charges he “aided the enemy” by passing a trove of classified documents to WikiLeaks, a judge said Thursday. The proceedings are scheduled to last until March 15, said Colonel Denise Lind during a pre-trial…
U.S. military says WikiLeaks suspect broke rules before
FORT MEADE, Maryland — US military lawyers said Wednesday that Bradley Manning, the soldier accused of passing a trove of secret documents to WikiLeaks, had breached security before and knew he was breaking the law. A pre-trial hearing for Manning, 24, who could be jailed for life if he is…
U.S. ‘withheld’ emails on WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning: defense
FORT MEADE, Maryland — Lawyers for the US soldier on trial for passing a trove of classified documents to WikiLeaks on Tuesday accused the government of withholding emails about his pre-trial detention. The defense team for Private Bradley Manning, who could be jailed for life for “aiding the enemy” over…
Ecuador’s London embassy provides Assange with computer and treadmill
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is keeping busy inside Ecuador’s London embassy by working on his computer, exercising on a treadmill and cooking food in his microwave, according to friends. Vaughan Smith, a former army officer who hosted 41-year-old Assange at his English mansion for more than a year while the…
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