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Afghan leak: Wikileaks Julian Assange tells all

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Channel 4 News speaks exclusively to founder of Wikileaks Julian Assange about the Afghan war logs -

July 26, 2010

It is one of the biggest security breaches in US military history. As 200,000 secret US military documents go public, Channel 4 News speaks exclusively to founder of Wikileaks Julian Assange about the Afghan war logs.

In his own words Julian Assange explains how Wikileaks works and why he decided it was right to leak classified details about the war in Afghanistan.

What is Wikileaks?

It's an international public service that claims it helps whistleblowers or journalists get suppressed information out to the public - and do it safely.

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Julian Assange to be questioned by Swedish prosecutors in London

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Lawyers for Wikileaks founder welcome prosecutor’s decision to interview Assange at Ecuadorian embassy in bid to break deadlock

Friday 13 March 2015 08.59 GMT Last modified on Saturday 14 March 2015 00.08 GMT

Lawyers for Julian Assange have claimed victory after a Swedish prosecutor bowed to pressure from the courts and agreed to break the deadlock in the WikiLeaks founder’s case by interviewing him in London.

Marianne Ny, who heads the investigation into accusations of rape, coercion and sexual molestation against Assange, made a formal request to interrogate him in the Ecuadorian embassy – the first sign of movement in a case that has been frozen since August 2012.

The prosecutor will also ask the UK government and Ecuador for permission to carry out the interviews at the embassy in London, where Assange has been staying for more than two-and-a-half years to avoid extradition to Sweden, from where he fears being handed over to the US to face espionage charges.

Ny said she had changed her mind because the statute of limitations on several of the crimes of which Assange is suspected runs out in August 2015.

“My attitude has been that the forms for a hearing with him at the embassy in London are such that the quality of the interrogation would be inadequate and that he needs to be present in Sweden at a trial. That assessment remains,” Ny said in a statement.

“Now time is running out and I therefore believe that I have to accept a loss of quality in the investigation and take the risk that the hearing will not take the investigation forward, because no other option is available as long as Assange does not make himself available in Sweden,” she said.

Per Samuelson, a Stockholm lawyer for Assange, said: “It is a victory for us. We have been asking for this to happen for over four years. That is the route to acquittal.”

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ASSANGE DENIED BAIL; REMAINS IN BELMARSH

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January 6, 2021 By Joe Lauria Special to Consortium News

Magistrate Vanessa Baraitser on Wednesday did not grant bail to WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange after she blocked a U.S. extradition request on Monday.

(PHOTO: Westminster Magistrates Court where bail application was heard on Wednesday. (GrimsbyT/Wikimedia Commons)

Magistrate Vanessa Baraitser on Wednesday failed to release WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange two days after she ordered Assange discharged based on a severe risk of suicide.

She ordered him back to Belmarsh prison on remand while the U.S. appeals process goes forward.

Assange’s lawyers had pled for him to leave Belmarsh prison, and be placed under house arrest with his partner Stella Morris and their two sons, wearing an ankle monitoring device.

“Notwithstanding the package offered by the defense, I am satisfied that he might abscond,” Baraitser told the court. The judge said that Assange had a huge network of supporters that could help him get away.

In effect, Baraitser went back on her own ruling, not on extradition, but on discharge. “The history of this case is well-known… Assange skipped bail & remained in the Ecuadorian Embassy to avoid extradition to the U.S.,” Baraitser said in her decision.

Baraitser said she ordered Assange’s discharge, but because there has been an appeal, “Mr. Assange still has an incentive to abscond.” She also said that the conditions in Belmarsh were nowhere near as dire as in U.S. prions, though she acknowledged in her written judgement Monday that Assange spoke repeatedly of suicide in Belmarsh and that a razor and a rope were found in his cell.

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