Assange is in a last-ditch battle in London to avoid extradition to the US where he faces espionage charges after thousands of documents relating to US conduct in Iraq and Afghanistan were leaked.

Julian Assange’s wife Stella Moris says there been a ‘shift’ in the federal government’s approach to her husband’s case following Labor’s election win.

Speaking ahead of a crunch hearing at the High Court this week, Kristinn Hrafnsson said would be ‘totally unacceptable’ for judges to overturn a decision blocking the extradition of Assange.

US officials were left ‘extremely disappointed’ after a British judge ruled on Monday that the WikiLeaks founder cannot be extradited to face spying charges.

Assange, 49, faces an 18-count indictment, alleging a plot to hack computers and a conspiracy to obtain and disclose confidential US national defence information.

Assange (pictured today) allegedly exposed informants helping American forces in Iraq and Afghanistan to the risk of ‘torture and murder’ – and several of these have ‘disappeared’.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange appeared in a London court on Monday for a hearing on whether he should be extradited to the United States to face spying charges. Australian-born Assange made international headlines in early 2010 when WikiLeaks published a classified U.S. military video showing a 2007 attack by Apache helicopters in Baghdad that killed […]

United States prosecutors will be allowed to ‘help themselves’ to the belongings of Julian Assange left behind in the Ecuadorian embassy in London after his arrest last month, claims Wikileaks.

The former US intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning has been released from prison after she was jailed for refusing to testify to a grand jury investigating WikiLeaks.Ms Manning spent 62 days in jail on contempt charges but was released as the term of the grand jury she was supposed to give evidence to expired.However the ex […]