The Latest Breaking News from Julian Assange

The law is clear. If you mishandle, distribute or disclose classified information you can get in big trouble. In the worst cases, as with Jack Teixeira, the 21-year-old Air National Guardsman who has been accused of divulging top secret national security documents, you can be arrested, charged under the Espionage…

Penny Wong responded to her critics by laying out the role Australia must play in the world as she sees it, in order to shape the future.

The gaping holes that Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden poked into what America assumed were secure, firewalled troves of classified data taught Washington a sobering lesson about the importance of keeping secrets leakproof.

Shadow attorney general Julian Lesser quits opposition frontbench to support yes campaign for Indigenous voice

On the fourth anniversary of Julian Assange's arrest, Australian MPs and senators have written to the US government calling for extradition proceedings to end.

In open letter, 48 MPs and senators warn ‘closest strategic ally’ that pursuit of WikiLeaks founder ‘set a dangerous precedent’

Labour MP Richard Burgon organised the letter, which has been given the support of MPs and members of the House of Lords from six parties.

The Russian Embassy in Kenya shared an image on Twitter on April 6 showing an exhausted-looking Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, who has been incarcerated in the United Kingdom since 2019. However, it turns out that one of his supporters generated the image using artificial intelligence.

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