Julian Assange

Several British judges are set to rule on whether WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange will be extradited to the United States after he launched a legal appeal to block the order.

The Australian publisher remains in custody in Britain pending a US extradition request to face trial.

A former CIA software engineer was convicted on Wednesday of leaking classified information to WikiLeaks from the spy agency, in one of the biggest such thefts in CIA history.

Assange is wanted to face trial for allegedly violating the US Espionage Act by publishing military and diplomatic files in 2010, related to the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.

The UK interior ministry earlier announced that Home Secretary Priti Patel had approved the extradition order but that he had 14 days to appeal.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange married his partner Stella Morris in the Belmarsh prison in London. He has been at Belmarsh since 2019.

Dozens of Assange's supporters, including the main opposition Labour party's former leader Jeremy Corbyn, gathered outside the court.

Before the ruling, both Germany and a UN rights expert expressed concern over the human rights and humanitarian problems presented by the extradition.

The Australian is being held on remand at a high-security jail, faces 18 counts from US prosecutors that could see him jailed for up to 175 years.

A ruling against Assange could see him jailed for 175 years if convicted on all 17 US Espionage Act charges and one count of computer hacking.

Assange's lawyer Jennifer Robinson said in a document that Trump relayed the offer through former US Congressman Dana Rohrabacher.

20 million people have been compromised after a major data leak in Ecuador

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been arrested at the Ecuadorian embassy in London on Thursday.

The government of Ecuador has confirmed that it has cut off internet access in its embassy in London to Julian Assange

A founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and a former lyricist for the Grateful Dead, John Perry Barlow, has died aged 70.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange claims a mysterious package with a 'threat' and a white substance was sent to him at the Ecuadorian Embassy.

Assange will still face arrest if he sets foot outside Ecuadorian Embassy after court throws out appeal.

Lauri Love has won his appeal against extradition to the United States for allegedly hacking the Federal Reserve and US Army.

With the account holder's permission, Twitter confirmed that the Fox News host's account had been "briefly compromised".

Julian Assange, the founder of whistleblowing website WikiLeaks, could potentially walk free from the Ecuadorian embassy today (26 January) following a fresh court appeal.

Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, is facing a multitude of serious health risks due to his years-long confinement in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, experts say.

Lenin Moreno appears to be losing patience with Wikileaks founder who has been holed up in London embassy since 2012.

Anderson accused Morgan of always trying to "make everyone happy" even if it means adding some "twist of tabloid journalism".

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has branded Google and Facebook an "existential threat" to humanity.

Julian Assange's poor hygiene has reportedly been an incentive for the Ecuadorian government to end the legal and diplomatic row he created when he sought refuge at their embassy.

The UK Foreign Office has rejected an appeal from Ecuador requesting diplomatic status be granted to WikiLeaks chief Julian Assange, who has lived in its London embassy for years.

"A person cannot live in those conditions for ever," Ecuador's foreign minister Maria Fernanda Espinosa said.

Trump and the White House have fiercely denounced the book by a "totally discredited" author as "fake" and full of lies.

Speculation about the account's mysterious and sudden disappearance are doing the rounds on Twitter, with some claiming that Julian Assange deleted his own account.

Since 2012, the US Freedom of the Press Foundation has helped funnel financial donations to the Julian Assange's whistleblowing platform - but no longer.