“Free Press Free Assange” movement has become a hot issue on Twitter, spreading across the world.Twitter account @JulianAssange has played a major role of this social media movement, having more than almost 800,000 followers. It means many people in the world hope to see freed Assange and achieve pr

Wikileaks has declared 3 May, 2018 as ‘World Press Freedom Day’ and urged freedom of Julian Assange.Julian Assange, the founder and publisher of WiliLeaks has been detained without charge for 2,704 days. The US secret grand Jury investigation has been ongoing for 2,779 days to arrest him as the orde

WikiLeaks KoreaThe opinion that the UK government and court must give freedom to Julian Assange, the founder of the WikiLeaks is increasing among netizens around the world.Since a report has spread that the health of Julian Assange who has been staying in the Embassy of Ecuador in London virtually as detainment has deteriorated, the opinions that he should be allowed to leave the UK have fl

WikiLeaks Korea -In February 1633, Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei arrived in Rome for trial before the Inquisition, accused of defending Copernican theory that the Earth revolved around the Sun.Throughout his four strict trials, Galileo in his seventies recanted the Copernican theory. As a result, he spent the rest of his life under house arrest instead of being sentenced to death.Acc

지구가 태양을 돈다는 ‘지동설’을 제기했던 갈릴레이 갈릴레오는 1633년 2월 로마교황청의 종교재판에 회부된다.70대의 고령이었던 갈릴레오는 4차례에 걸친 삼엄한 재판 분위기에서 자신의 지동설을 철회한다는 고백과 함께 사형 대신 가택연금형을 선고받았다. 생명의 위협 때문에 자신의 주장을

Ecuador’s foreign minister says: ‘To mediate you need two parties, Ecuador is willing, but not necessarily the other party’Talks between the UK and Ecuador over the future of Julian Assange at its London embassy have broken down, the South American country’s foreign minister has said.Maria Fernanda Espinosa suggested British officials had been unwilling to negotiate over the Wikileaks

WikiLeaks founder continues to face arrest if he leaves Ecuadorian embassy as judge rejects request to quash warrantJulian Assange will continue to face detention if he leaves the Ecuadorian embassy in London after a British judge upheld a warrant for his arrest.Handing down her judgment at Westminster magistrates court, the senior district judge Emma Arbuthnot said she was not persuaded by th

After six years holed up in Ecuadorian embassy, WikiLeaks founder faces a pivotal momentIt is nearly six years since Julian Assange disguised himself as a motorcycle courier and entered the Ecuadorian embassy in London to seek political asylum. His subsequent legal battle, so vast and protracted a CPS lawyer once deemed it “like an industry” in itself, comes to a pivotal moment on Tuesday, w

UK prosecutors tried to dissuade Swedish counterparts from doing so, exchange showsSwedish prosecutors attempted to drop extradition proceedings against Julian Assange as early as 2013, according to a confidential exchange of emails with the Crown Prosecution Service seen by the Guardian.The sequence of messages also appears to challenge statements by the CPS that the case was not live at the

Assange’s lawyers react by launching new application on public interest groundsJulian Assange will continue to face arrest if he leaves the Ecuadorian embassy, after a judge ruled that the arrest warrant against the WikiLeaks founder was still valid.But after the senior district judge Emma Arbuthnot ruled against Assange on Tuesday, his lawyers made a separate application that the warrant sh

The longtime Trump associate visited the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where officials have harbored Assange for over five yearsRoger Stone, a longtime associate of Donald Trump who has previously claimed he had a “backchannel” to WikiLeaks, on Wednesday visited the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where officials have harbored the organization’s founder, Julian Assange, for over five years.

WikiLeaks founder hopes ruling in his favour would allow him to leave Ecuadorian embassyThe WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, has asked a UK court to drop the arrest warrant that prevents him from leaving the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where he has been living for five and a half years.Assange, 46, skipped bail to enter the embassy in 2012 in order to avoid extradition to Sweden over alleg

Robertson frequently criticises refugee policy, warning Australia seen as ‘mean and miserable’He’s been a frequent critic of Australia’s refugee policy, warning Australia risks being seen as “mean and miserable”; he’s defended our highest profile fugitive, Julian Assange, and lived for the bulk of his life outside the country.Now Geoffrey Robertson QC, human rights lawyer and civ

The WikiLeaks founder has a human right to healthcare. It will not be met while he remains confined in the Ecuadorian embassyJulian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, has not stepped outside the heavily surveilled confines of the Ecuadorian embassy in London since he entered the building almost six years ago. Naturally, much of the media attention has focused on his international legal drama and

Two clinicians who examined Assange renew calls for him to be given safe passage to hospitalJulian Assange’s long stay in the Ecuadorian embassy in London is having a “dangerous” impact on his physical and mental health, according to clinicians who carried out the most recent assessments of him.The pair renewed calls for the WikiLeaks publisher to be granted safe passage to a London hosp

Private investigator tells House panel Farage gave thumb drive to Assange, who officials view as a conduit for the Russian governmentNigel Farage may have given Julian Assange a thumb drive of data and was possibly a more frequent visitor than was publicly known to the Ecuadorian embassy where the WikiLeaks founder lives, according to testimony given to US congressional inquiry into the Trump ca

Ecuador's foreign minister, María Fernanda Espinosa,  announces the naturalisation of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Assange requested Ecuadorian citizenship in September 2017 and his application was granted in December Julian Assange is made an Ecuadorian citizen in effort to resolve impasseContinue reading...

Ecuador’s foreign minister reveals to reporters in Quito that Wikileaks founder was granted citizenship a month agoThe WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was made an Ecuadorian citizen last month, the nation’s foreign ministry has revealed, in an attempt to resolve the political impasse over his continued presence in the UK.The 46-year-old has been naturalised after living for five and a hal

WikiLeaks founder faces arrest for breaching bail conditions if he leaves Ecuadorian embassy in KnightsbridgeThe Foreign Office has turned down a request from the Ecuadorian government to grant the WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, diplomatic status as a means of breaking the stalemate over his continued presence in the UK.The development comes amid reports that Assange – an Australian who

The WikiLeaks founder is unlikely to face prosecution in the US, charges in Sweden have been dropped – and for the embassy, he’s lost his value as an iconAccording to Debrett’s, the arbiters of etiquette since 1769: “Visitors, like fish, stink in three days.” Given this, it’s difficult to imagine what Ecuador’s London embassy smells like, more than five-and-a-half years after Julian