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Get breaking news and articles from RT on Julian Assange. He is a programmer and founder of WikiLeaks, a non-profit organization that leaks and reveals secret data. Ecuador has officially withdrawn Assange’s asylum in its embassy on April 11, 2019. Assange has then been dragged out of the embassy and arrested – stay with RT to not miss the latest news on Assange, and to see live feeds from London by RT’s Ruptly video agency. Follow RT on the establishment, work, and revelations of WikiLeaks. Assange gained public attention in 2010 by publishing leaks provided by Chelsea Manning; the US government launched a criminal investigation into WikiLeaks shortly thereafter. Don’t miss the stories and articles on criminal cases against Julian Assange and the current state of affairs. Julian Assange was also charged with sexual assault and rape. However, he denied all allegations. Read the news and stories on that matter. Julian Assange was living in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London since 2012, where he had been granted asylum, until he was arrested by British police in April 2019. In 2017, Julian Assange got Ecuadorian citizenship. Follow RT for updates on Julian Assange’s activities in the embassy, and other revelations he has exposed to the public with the help of other whistleblowers from all over the world. Follow Julian Assange’s life on Twitter. There has also been a fake tweet about the death of Assange. Also, there was a moment when he was left without internet access, as Ecuador cut off his access at the embassy in London, after Assange’s tweet questioning the UK’s accusation that Russia was responsible for the poisoning of former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal. Ecuador said that this online post could put UK-Ecuadorian relations at risk. RT also covered this news. Visit RT.com to not miss updates and breaking news on the tweets of Julian Assange and all the controversies surrounding him.

Lee Camp: What’s the difference between ‘Villain’ Assange & ‘Intrepid’ Woodward?
The next time you see a mainstream-media talking-head fawn over Woodward, just remember that if they had any backbone, any moral core, they would be fawning over Assange instead.
Sep 25, 2020 18:29
Presidents, ex-presidents & political leaders add names to growing list calling for an end to Assange persecution
A further 11 current and former world leaders have joined an ever-growing list of politicians calling for an end to the political and legal persecution of journalist and Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.
Sep 21, 2020 13:35
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Slavoj Zizek: The treatment of Assange is an assault on everyone’s personal freedoms
Julian Assange has had his rights stripped away in a case that should alarm millions, but too few people care because his character has been assassinated. He might have to go to prison before he gets the support he deserves.
Sep 21, 2020 12:06
Caitlin Johnstone: Exposing war crimes should always be legal. Committing and hiding them should not
Amid Julian Assange’s ongoing legal battle, we are losing sight of the bigger picture: this is a trial that should never have happened in the first place. The fact it is happening highlights deep-rooted flaws in our society.
Sep 18, 2020 12:58
Pentagon Papers leaker Daniel Ellsberg testifies in Assange’s defense, says WikiLeaks exposed ‘war crimes’ in ‘public interest’
Whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg – whose ‘Pentagon Papers’ leak exposed illegal US bombing during the Vietnam War – said Julian Assange would not see a fair trial if extradited to the US, comparing the publisher’s case to his own.
Sep 16, 2020 23:25
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Snowden warns that Assange extradition will lead free press to slaughterhouse as publisher’s critics blinded by partisanship
The US drive to extradite and prosecute Julian Assange poses a grave threat to journalists everywhere, but the publisher’s opponents have placed politics over principle, and even their own interests, said whistleblower Ed Snowden.
Sep 16, 2020 00:29
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