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This screen grab taken from video posted on the WikiLeaks X account on Tuesday shows WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange looking out the window of a private jet as he flies from London to Saipan in the Northern Mariana Islands after reaching a plea deal with the U.S. authorities.
WORLD / Crime & Legal / FOCUS
Jun 26, 2024
Assange walks free, but plea deal sets a chilling precedent
The Committee to Protect Journalists says the prosecution had grave implications for journalists and press freedom worldwide.
An image of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange released on social media on Tuesday. Assange pleaded guilty to a single charge of disseminating classified documents in a plea bargain that leaves him a free man.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 26, 2024
Julian Assange¡¯s saga will forever exist in a legal gray area
WikiLeaks founder Assange¡¯s case lies on the boundary between espionage and protected speech. Its outcome has done nothing to shed light on this gray zone.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is seen in this screen shot taken from video in London on Monday.
WORLD
Jun 25, 2024
WikiLeaks¡¯ Julian Assange to be freed after pleading guilty to U.S. Espionage Act charge
Assange, 52, has agreed to plead guilty to a single criminal count of conspiring to obtain and disclose classified U.S. national defense documents.
Supporters of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange protest outside The Royal Courts of Justice, Britain's High Court, in central London on Monday.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
May 21, 2024
WikiLeaks¡¯ Julian Assange wins right to appeal extradition from Britain to U.S.
Assange, 52, is wanted in the U.S. on 18 charges, nearly all under the Espionage Act, relating to WikiLeaks¡¯ mass release of secret U.S. documents.
Supporters of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange protest on the day he appeals in a British court against his extradition to the United States, in Vienna, Austria, on Feb. 20.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Apr 17, 2024
Assange extradition approaches as U.S. provides U.K. with assurances
The U.S. says that a sentence of death will neither be sought nor imposed.
A supporter of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange holds a sign in London on Tuesday. Assange's many supporters hail him as an anti-establishment hero who is being persecuted for exposing U.S. wrongdoing and alleged war crimes.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Mar 26, 2024
Julian Assange wins temporary reprieve from extradition to U.S.
U.S. prosecutors are seeking to put Assange on trial under the Espionage Act over WikiLeaks¡¯ high-profile release of confidential U.S. records.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's supporters demonstrate against U.S. extradition in front of the British Consulate in Barcelona on Tuesday.
WORLD / Politics
Feb 21, 2024
Assange absent at final hearing against extradition to U.S.
The two-day session is likely the WikiLeaks founder¡¯s last chance to fight the extradition in Britain¡¯s courts after a half-decade battle.
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 10, 2023
How the latest leaked U.S. documents are different from past breaches
The freshness of the documents ¡ª some appear to be barely 40 days old ¡ª and the hints they hold for operations to come make them particularly damaging, officials say.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 16, 2022
Assange lawyers sue CIA for spying on them
The attorneys, along with two journalists joining the suit, are Americans and allege that the CIA violated their U.S. constitutional protections.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 17, 2022
U.K. gives go-ahead to U.S. extradition of WikiLeaks¡¯ founder Julian Assange
Assange is wanted by U.S. authorities on 18 counts, but supporters say he is an anti-establishment hero who has been victimized because he exposed U.S. wrongdoing.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Oct 27, 2021
U.S. lawyers tell British court Assange can safely be extradited
Lawyers for the U.S. have argued that the WikiLeaks founder¡¯s mental health should not prevent him from facing justice.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jan 6, 2021
WikiLeaks¡¯ Assange denied bail in London; judge says he could abscond
Assange on Monday won an attempt to stop his extradition to the United States to face 18 criminal charges of breaking an espionage law and conspiring to hack government computers.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jan 5, 2021
U.K. court rejects extradition of ¡®suicide risk¡¯ Assange to U.S.
The judge at London¡¯s Old Bailey denied his lawyers¡¯ arguments that the case was political and an assault on journalism and freedom of speech.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Feb 26, 2020
Trump loyalist Roger Stone to ask U.S. judge for a new trial
U.S. President Donald Trump¡¯s longtime friend Roger Stone will urge a federal judge on Tuesday to grant him a new trial, after she sentenced him last week to serve more than three years in prison in a case that angered Trump and rattled the Justice Department.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Feb 25, 2020
Lawyer for U.S. says Julian Assange put lives at risk but his side claims he¡¯s target of Trump war on journalists
Julian Assange is wanted for crimes that put at risk the lives of people in Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan who had helped the West, some of whom later disappeared, said a lawyer acting for the United States in its bid to extradite him.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 24, 2020
Why would Trump offer a pardon to Julian Assange?
Assange had already said that Russia was not responsible for the hacked emails about the 2016 election.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jan 14, 2020
Facing extradition to U.S., WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange tells court he needs more time to speak to lawyer
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is not getting the time he needs with his legal team to discuss his fight against extradition to the United States, causing delays to the case, his lawyer told a British court on Monday.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Nov 8, 2019
¡®Prepare to die¡¯: Prosecutors in Roger Stone trial note threatening texts over WikiLeaks release
Prosecutors on Thursday unveiled threatening text messages by U.S. President Donald Trump¡¯s adviser, Roger Stone, to radio host Randy Credico in which Stone urged Credico not to testify about their communications over Stone¡¯s efforts in 2016 to learn when WikiLeaks might release more damaging emails...
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Aug 6, 2019
Roger Stone appeals judge¡¯s order in bid to get back on social media
Roger Stone wants back on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and every other social media platform from which he was banished last month by his future trial judge. He has turned to a U.S. appeals court for help.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 3, 2019
Hacking dirty government secrets is no crime
The ¡®crime¡¯ of which Julian Assange stands accused pales next to the wrongdoing he helped to expose. Whistleblowers should never be prosecuted.
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Osaka trumps Tokyo as both ranked among world¡¯s top 10 most livable cities
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