Julian Assange
✓ Source-basedstableAustralian editor, publisher, and activist (born 1971)
also Ecuador
in AustraliaHe published classified U.S. military footage and diplomatic cables that governments didn't want seen, then spent seven years in an embassy and five more in a British prison fighting extradition. The name carries weight because he made transparency a weapon and paid for it with a decade of confinement.
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Assange, about 2006
Assange at the "New Media Days 09" in Copenhagen, November 2009
Assange in Hungary. Global Voices Summit 2008
Assange and Daniel Domscheit-Berg at the 26C3 in Berlin, December 2009
Demonstration in support of Assange in front of Sydney Town Hall, 10 December 2010
Assange speaks on the steps of St Paul's Cathedral in London, 16 October 2011.
Mural Collateral Crucifixion (FreeAssangeYesterday) at Stresemannstraße 15 in Berlin Kreuzberg, created by the artist duo Captain BorderlineIn their own words 10
Pope Francis never stopped championing peace, compassion, and justice. A true ally in the fight for Julian Assange’s freedom. May he rest in peace.
As quoted in Bryony Gooch, Julian Assange makes rare public appearance at Pope Francis’ funeral, The Independent (April 26, 2025)
[Mr Assange's application did not raise] an arguable point of law
A court spokesman Julian Assange denied permission to appeal against extradition (14 March 2022)
It’s pretty sad when the communists are condemning and criticizing the U.S. government for hypocrisy when it comes to human-rights abuses and civil liberties.
Jacob Hornberger, The Reds Are Right About Assange, Mises Institute, 13 January 2022
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About this person
Julian Assange was born 3 July 1971, raised across Australia, and convicted of hacking in 1996 after time in the hacker community. He founded WikiLeaks in 2006 and published leaks on banks, Tibet, and Kenyan political killings before Chelsea Manning's 2010 disclosures - Baghdad airstrike footage, war logs from Afghanistan and Iraq, U.S. diplomatic cables - brought him international attention and over two dozen awards. Swedish police sought him for questioning in November 2010; he breached bail in June 2012 and took refuge in Ecuador's London embassy, granted asylum that August on grounds of political persecution. He launched the WikiLeaks Party in 2013, published Democratic Party emails during the 2016 U.S. election showing the DNC favoured Clinton over Sanders, and in 2017 released CIA hacking tools - after which senior CIA officials discussed kidnapping or killing him. Ecuador withdrew asylum in April 2019; British police arrested him, a judge sentenced him to 50 weeks for breaching bail, and the U.S.
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