How is Julian Assange?
Julian Assange was born in July 1971 in Townville Australia. In he young, he became a very famous computer programmer. In 1995 he was found guilty of hacking &penalty was fined.
What is WikiLeaks?
• WikiLeaks is a multinational media organisational-associated library. It was founded by its publisher Julian Assange in 2006. • WikiLeaks specializes and gives an analysis of the larger data site &those data are censored or restricted official materials involving spying, war, and corruption. • It has so far published more than 10 million documents and associated analyses.
WikiLeaks' revelations which created a sensation across the world –
• Guantanamo Bay (Nov 2007)
WikiLeaks released some documents in which it was clearly seen that people were arrested without proper evidence for a long time not only this, but some people of the society were let go easily.
• Bagdad airstrike footage (July 2007)
WikiLeaks released the footage in which it was that how American soldiers were targeting Iraqi journalists.
• 5lakh messages leak related 9/1
During the terrorist attack on America on 11 September 2001, more than 5 lakh messages sent within 24 hours were made public, which created a stir at that time. These messages were linked to the American Defence Ministry, FBI and New York Police Department officials.
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Australian citizen Assange has made thousands of classified documents public, including documents related to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Through this, he accused the armies of America, England and NATO of war crimes, which included allegations of rape, torture and killing of surrendered people.
After the WikiLeaks publication in 2010-2011, the US accused Assange of spying on their country and he published secret files which endangered the lives of many people.
Sweden issued an arrest warrant against Assange due to rape and molestation charges.
Assange arrested in London (2010)Assange was arrested by British police on a European warrant issued by Sweden but freed on bail.
Take refuge in Ecuador’s London Embassy & seek political asylum (2012)
In 2012, Assange took refuge in the Ecuadorian embassy in London to avoid being deported to Sweden. He lived in Ecuador's embassy between 2012 and 2019. For 7 years, he did not step out of the embassy. On 11 April 2019, he missed his court appearance. Later, Ecuador's government refused to grant him bail. The reason for this was said to be a continuous violation of international agreements. In 2019, when he came out of Ecuador's embassy, Britain's police arrested him.
Since then, he has been lodged in Belmarsh prison in London. Although Sweden withdrew the charges of rape from him in November 2019, he remained in jail despite this. In April 2019, the US accused him of plotting hacking.
On 23 May 2019, the US Grand Jury filed 18 counts of espionage against Assange. The US has been fighting the case of extraditing Assange for the past 4 years. However, the London court rejected the extradition plea citing Assange's health and mental condition.
Assange deal with the US
For a long time, the US government made several attempts to have Assange face trial on its soil over charges of espionage. Assange, who has been living in confinement in the UK in recent years, has appealed against this at various levels of British courts. In a major relief to Assange last month, the High Court in London allowed him to appeal against his extradition to the US. His lawyers have reportedly been negotiating with the US Department of Justice since then.
According to The Guardian, the Australian government has also reached out to the US government. Now, he has agreed to a deal where he will plead guilty to a “single felony count of illegally obtaining and disclosing national security material in exchange for his release from a British prison”
“Top officials at the Justice Department accepted an agreement with no additional prison time because Mr Assange had already served longer than most people charged with a similar offence — in this case, over five years in prison in Britain.
Assange will be tried in a US court on the island of Saipan at 9 am on Wednesday (local time). Saipan is located in the western Pacific Ocean and is the capital of the Northern Mariana Islands (NMI), a US commonwealth. Assange has opposed extradition to the US mainland.
News Media - Swati Chaurasiya.
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