Julian Assange has been subjected to drawn-out “psychological torture”, a UN rights expert said Friday, accusing the United States, Britain, Ecuador and Sweden of “collective persecution” of the WikiLeaks founder. The United Nations special rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, Nils Melzer, also warned that if London agrees to an extradition […]
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Int’l law: offender or defender US? Part-I
“If international law is , in some ways, at the vanishing point of law, the law of war is, perhaps even more conspicuously, at the vanishing point of international law”. -Hersch Lauterpacht There can be no denying that the United States and its President play an instrumental role in strengthening or weakening international law. And […]
WikiLeaks co-founder sentenced 50 weeks in prison
Julian Assange the co-founder of WikiLeaks is sentenced to 50 weeks in jail. He has been sentenced for breaching his bail conditions. Assange breached a British court order seven years ago. He breached when he took asylum in Ecuador’s London embassy to avoid deportation to Sweden. London court will hear the application submitted by the […]
Moreno: Assange used to coordinate hackers from the embassy
Ecuador’s president on Tuesday accused Julian Assange of hosting numerous hackers at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London to give them directions on how to propagate information on topics important to the WikiLeaks founder and his financiers. President Lenin Moreno said that Swedish programmer Ola Bini, who is in custody in Ecuador, was one of the […]
Assange’s father calls on Australia to bring him home
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s father on Sunday called on Australia to bring his son home, saying he was shocked to see his son’s condition after his arrest in London last week. John Shipton — who was secretary of the Wikileaks Party when his son tried to run for a senate seat in 2013 national elections […]
‘Deterioration in relations’ behind Assange arrest
Ecuador’s decision to abruptly end Julian Assange’s seven-year asylum in its London embassy on Thursday followed a long deterioration in relations, driven in part by suspicions he was secretly fuelling corruption allegations against President Lenin Moreno. British police on Thursday arrested the WikiLeaks founder, who sought asylum in the Andean nation’s diplomatic mission during the […]
Julian Assange: a decade of stunning leaks of US secrets
The US government has regarded WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange as a dangerous national security threat ever since he and his organization opened a decade-long effort to expose US secrets — from military files to embarrassing Democratic Party emails during the 2016 election. But Assange’s indictment on narrow charges of hacking conspiracy Thursday seems to concede […]