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The Latest Breaking News from Julian Assange

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange awarded ‘keys to Mexico City’

Assange’s brother says the move has reinvigorated the campaign to free the controversial figure.

The Independent UK

Jailed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange awarded keys to Mexico City as family lobbies for his release

Mr Assange remains in London's Belmarsh Prison pending an appeal against his extradition to the United States.

ABC News

WikiLeaks founder's family brings campaign to Mexico

This week the objective was to insert mention of Julian Assange into a meeting between Mexico’s president and the United States’ top diplomat

The Independent UK

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Mexico invites relatives of Assange, Guevara to Independence Day

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Wednesday he had invited relatives of Julian Assange and Che Guevara to attend the country's independence day celebrations next week.

Reuters

Trump likely to be charged with crime he said Assange, Snowden should be executed for, says right-wing legal pundit

“In a monumental irony, both Julian Assange... and Edward Snowden... stand charged with the very same crimes that are likely to be brought against Mr Trump.”

The Independent UK

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange files latest appeal in bid to stop extradition to United States

The appeal argues Assange is being prosecuted and punished for his political opinions and for protected speech, and that the extradition request violates the US-UK Extradition Treaty and international law

ABC News

Lawsuit alleges CIA got phone contents from Assange visitors

Two lawyers and two journalists are suing the CIA, saying the agency obtained copies of the contents of their electronic devices and helped enable the recording of their meetings with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange

The Independent UK

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CIA sued for allegedly surveilling Americans who met with Assange

A group of lawyers and journalists are suing the CIA, alleging that their privacy rights were violated.

Al Jazeera

You don't have to be a spy to violate the Espionage Act – and other crucial facts about the law Trump may have broken

The federal court-authorized search of former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate has brought renewed attention to the obscure but infamous law known as the Espionage Act of 1917. A section of the law was listed as one of three potential violations under Justice Department investigation.

The Conversation

CIA sued over alleged spying on lawyers, journalists who met Assange

A group of journalists and lawyers sued the CIA and its former director Mike Pompeo over allegations the intelligence agency spied on them when they visited WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange during his stay in Ecuador's embassy in London.

Reuters

Journalists and lawyers file lawsuit against CIA over ‘spying’ on Assange visits

The WikiLeaks founder is being held in London’s Belmarsh prison as he fights extradition to the US.

The Independent UK

Jeremy Corbyn and TV stars join as hundreds march in Manchester to commemorate Peterloo Massacre

Julie Hesmondhalgh and Maxine Peake were also among those who gave speeches

Manchester Evening News

Assange family barred from taking book about WikiLeaks founder into Australia’s parliament

Family planned to distribute book, deemed ‘protest material’ by security, to MPs and media as they urged government to intervene in proposed extradition

The Guardian - AU

Calls to end Assange 'slow-motion' murder

Julian Assange's brother and father are calling for help to end the Wikileaks founder's incarceration in Belmarsh prison in the United Kingdom.

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The Guardian - AU

Julian Assange’s family urge Anthony Albanese to intervene before US extradition

John and Gabriel Shipton say they’re frustrated at the lack of progress in WikiLeaks founder’s case since Labor was elected

The National (Scotland)

Human chain to be formed around UK Parliament in support of Julian Assange

More than 1000 people have signed up to form a human chain around the UK Parliament in support of Julian Assange.

Salon

Whistleblowers and the road to tyranny

Daniel Hale is in a supermax prison for telling the truth about America's drone war. That prison awaits us all

Reason

Proposed Bill Would Protect Journalists Like Julian Assange From Espionage Charges

A senator and two congressmen team up to help protect whistleblowers from vindictive prosecution.

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The Guardian - AU

PM says voice referendum should be ‘unifying moment’ – as it happened

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Mexican president renewed asylum offer for Assange in letter to Biden

Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Monday he gave a letter to U.S. President Joe Biden where he defended Julian Assange's innocence and renewed a previous offer of asylum to the WikiLeaks founder.

Salon

Ex-C.I.A. convicted of espionage

Joshua Schulte was convicted Wednesday for one of the biggest acts of espionage in American History

The Independent UK

Mexico, US presidents to meet amid newly tense relationship

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is visiting Washington on Tuesday to meet with President Joe Biden

The Guardian - UK

Ithaka review – intriguing portrait of the campaign to free Julian Assange

The WikiLeaks founder’s father John Shipton and fiancee Stella Moris and take centre stage in Ben Lawrence’s documentary

The Guardian - UK

Ithaka review – emotional look at absent Julian Assange’s legal troubles

Affecting documentary focuses on the family of the WikiLeaks founder, with whom it is perhaps easier to sympathise

The New Daily

Michael Pascoe: Australian official briefed foreign power against RBA

While all eyes were on the Reserve Bank on Tuesday, an extraordinary story in the weekend press seems to have slipped by without notice.

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