The Latest Breaking News from Julian Assange

Before he emerged as an eccentric internet publisher of state secrets, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was born in Townsville, Australia

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been released from prison in Britain and is set to face a final court hearing after reaching a plea deal with US authorities that brings his long legal drama to a close.

The WikiLeaks founder’s wife, Stella Assange, said she is looking forward to a ‘new chapter’ in Australia and wants prioritise her husband’s health

Assange will plead guilty to one espionage charge in a US court in Saipan, before returning home to Australia.

PRESS REVIEW – Tuesday, June 25: We look at reactions in the Australian press after WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange strikes a plea deal that ends 14 years of legal limbo over his publication of classified military documents. He will arrive home in Australia as a free man. Also: French papers…

Stella Assange says she has not yet told the couple’s two young sons about their father’s release from prison

Behind closed doors, an Australia-US-UK diplomatic dance opened the way for a plea deal to free WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, analysts and a diplomat previously involved in the case told AFP. The 52-year-old Australian citizen walked out of his five-year visit to London's high-security Belmarsh prison on Monday after agreeing…

Almost 14 years after the mass leak of secret military and diplomatic files, the organisation’s founder has struck a plea deal with the US, leaving prison in the UK to return to Australia

The Biden administration got a guilty plea and set a dangerous tone for reporters everywhere, says Trevor Timm, executive director of the Freedom of the Press Foundation