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Watch: Julian Assange Challenges Nobel Peace Prize Award to Maria Corina Machado

December 19, 2025 admin

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has filed a criminal complaint in Sweden against the Nobel Foundation, opposing the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado. Assange claims the award amounts to a gross misappropriation of funds under Swedish law and alleges the prize money could facilitate war crimes. He has sought to…

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WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange pleads guilty in deal with U.S. that secures his freedom: Watch Video

June 27, 2024 admin

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange returned to his homeland Australia aboard a charter jet on June 26, hours after pleading guilty to obtaining and publishing U.S. military secrets in a deal with Justice Department prosecutors that concludes a drawn-out legal saga. Editorial |Free man: On the release of Julian Assange The criminal case of international intrigue, which had…

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US Says Julian Assange, Now Free, Had Put People In Danger

June 26, 2024 admin

Julian Assange had published hundreds of thousands of confidential US documents. Washington: The US State Department on Wednesday renewed its allegation that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange put people at risk for revealing secrets, after he was freed in a plea deal. “The documents they published gave identifying information of individuals who were in contact with…

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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange returns to Australia a free man

June 26, 2024 admin

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange waves after landing at RAAF air base Fairbairn in Canberra, Australia, on June 26 2024. | Photo Credit: AP WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange returned to his homeland Australia aboard a charter jet on Wednesday, hours after pleading guilty to obtaining and publishing U.S. military secrets in a deal with Justice Department…

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WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange, A Free Man, Lands In Australia

June 26, 2024 admin

Julian Assange has landed in Canberra to start life as a free man. Canberra: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange returned home to Australia to start life as a free man Wednesday after admitting he revealed US defence secrets in a deal that unlocked the door to his London prison cell. Assange landed on a chilly Canberra…

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WikiLeaks’ Assange pleads guilty in deal with U.S. that secures his freedom, ends legal fight

June 26, 2024 admin

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange pleaded guilty to obtaining and publishing U.S. military secrets in a deal with Justice Department prosecutors that secured his liberty and concluded a drawn-out legal saga that raised divisive questions about press freedom and national security. The criminal case of international intrigue, which had played out for years in major world…

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WikiLeaks Says Julian Assange To Fly To Australia Within Hours

June 26, 2024 admin

Julian Assange expected to depart within 3 hours, WikiLeaks said. Sydney: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will fly to the Australian capital Canberra within hours following a plea deal to set him free, the whistleblower website said Wednesday. “Expected to depart in 2 hours, 58 minutes. To Canberra, Australia,” WikiLeaks said in a social media post,…

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WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange Pleads Guilty In US Court

June 25, 2024 admin

WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange landed in Saipan for US plea-deal court hearing on Wednesday. Saipan, US: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange pleaded guilty in a US court in Saipan on Wednesday, AFP reporters said, in a plea bargain that will leave him a free man after years of legal drama. The 52-year-old admitted to a single count…

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Australian leaders cautiously welcome expected plea that could bring WikiLeaks founder Assange home

June 25, 2024 admin

Australian leaders cautiously welcomed an expected plea agreement that could set free Julian Assange, who was pursued for years over WikiLeaks’ publication of a trove of classified documents. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Tuesday there was nothing to be gained by keeping the Australian incarcerated. A plane chartered by Mr. Assange landed on Tuesday…

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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange stops in Bangkok on his way to a U.S. court in Northern Mariana Islands

June 25, 2024 admin

A plane carrying Julian Assange landed in Bangkok on June 25 for refuelling, as the WikiLeaks founder was on his way to enter a plea deal with the U.S. government that will free him and resolve the legal case that spanned years and continents over the publication of a trove of classified documents. A chartered…

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