The Biden administration should abandon a course that could lead to the criminalization of whistleblowers and investigative journalism.The Constitution does not prohibit assaults on freedom of the press because the notoriously vain founders were fond of the printers, who in the first years of the Re

The ruling by the High Court in London that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, currently in a British prison, can be extradited to the U.S., where he is facing charges under the Espionage Act, is a blow to all those who believe in press freedom.A lower court had earlier this year rejected the U.S. re

The High Court has heard the US appeal. It can agree with it, dismiss it or send it back to magistrate’s court. There are five possible scenarios that could result at the High Court in London on the US appeal of a lower court decision not to extradite imprisoned WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange to

WikiLeaks founder and Stella Moris are preparing legal action against Dominic Raab and Belmarsh jail governorStella Moris speaks to the media outside the Royal Courts of Justice in London last month. Photograph: Vuk Valcic/Sopa Images/Rex/ShutterstockJulian Assange and his fiancee, Stella Moris, say

The US government is begging the British High Court to allow Julian Assange to be extradited to the United States. Doing so would be a human rights disaster, given that American prisons violate the most basic human rights of political prisoners like Assange.For two days, British prosecutors, acting

As extradition proceedings continue, WikiLeaks founder and activist Julian Assange was recently granted an allowance by the UK's Belmarsh Prison to marry longtime fiancée Stella Moris, the mother of two of Assange's children. Assange, if extradited to the US, could face up to 175 years behin

Over the past 24 hours, WikiLeaks has reported that a British High Court ruling on a US appeal aimed at securing Julian Assange’s extradition is “imminent.” Several other legal sources have also stated that the decision is to be brought down in early December.The US appeal was directed against a Jan

The Justice Department has failed to respond to multiple requests from Spanish authorities for help in an investigation into a local security firm suspected of being used by the CIA to conduct aggressive — and potentially illegal — surveillance of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.“I am not so please

A CIA plot to kidnap and assassinate Julian Assange, recently reported by Yahoo! News, was discussed by dozens of high-level US officials, including then US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and president Trump.Whistleblower-journalist Assange is currently under trial for extradition to the US where he

Sartre’s words should echo in all our minds following the grotesque decision of Britain’s high court to extradite Julian Assange to the US where he faces “a living death”. This is his punishment for the crime of authentic, accurate, courageous, vital journalism.Miscarriage of justice is an inadequat