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UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, Alice Jill Edwards, urged the UK government Tuesday to stop the impending extradition of Julian Assange to the US. She urged the government to carefully consider Assange’s appeal and cited significant concerns that his extradition could put him at risk of treatment amounting to torture. The Special Rapporteur called for [...]

Marjorie Cohn is a professor emerita at Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego, California. She has authored publications arguing against the legality of the 2003 US military intervention in Iraq as well as the US-led NATO interventions into Afghanistan and the former Yugoslavia. Professor Cohn is also a national board member of Assange [...]

The Wau Holland Foundation, a WikiLeaks fundraising organization, filed an LD-2 disclosure form on Friday showing that it hired the law firm Squire Patton Boggs to lobby the US Department of Justice on behalf of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. The form states that Wau Holland engaged Squire Patton Boggs to lobby “First Amendment issues related [...]

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) released their 2023 Press Freedom Index and accompanying report Wednesday, noting that the rise of artificial intelligence, “fake content” and authoritarianism endanger journalistic integrity and expression around the world. As in past years, the organization says that most countries have “problematic,” “difficult” or “very serious” press freedom situations. RSF has also [...]

Jen Robinson, human rights lawyer for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange,  told Australian reporters Wednesday Assange is in poor health for his coming legal proceedings. Assange faces extradition to the US where 18 counts of illegally obtaining, receiving and disclosing classified information await him. UK Home Secretary Priti Patel approved the extradition in June. Assange is [...]

A group of journalists and lawyers sued the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Monday for illegally spying on them and violating their Fourth Amendment rights under the US Constitution while visiting Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. The Fourth Amendment protects US citizens from unreasonable search and seizure. The group filed the lawsuit in the US District Court [...]

Former CIA Agent Joshua Schulte was convicted on espionage charges in federal court Wednesday for providing national defense information to the website Wikileaks. Schulte was charged in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York back in 2018 with a 13 count superseding indictment which included espionage charges, child pornography charges, and [...]

Uk Home Secretary Priti Patel Friday approved the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States. The Magistrates Court and High Court considered US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s extradition request and determined that extradition is not “oppressive, unjust or an abuse of process” and is not “incompatible with human rights, including his [...]

The United Kingdom’s Westminster Magistrates’ court Wednesday formally ruled that the power to extradite Julian Assange to the US lies with UK Home Secretary Priti Patel. Patel will decide whether Assange will be extradited to the US for prosecution. Starting in 2012, Assange spent seven years at the Ecuadorean embassy in London to avoid being [...]

The United Kingdom’s highest court Monday denied WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s appeal of a decision allowing his extradition to the US because there were not any substantial arguments on points of law. The appeal followed a series of cases between Assange and the US government requesting his extradition from the UK. Initially, District Judge Vanessa [...]