Julian Assange

Assange Says He ‘Hears Voices’ In Prison – Psychiatrist

September 22, 2020 4:56 pm

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange complained of hearing imaginary voices and music while detained in a high-security British prison, a psychiatrist who has interviewed him told his extradition hearing on Tuesday.

Michael Kopelman, a psychiatrist who has interviewed Assange around 20 times, said the former hacker would be a “very high” suicide risk if he were extradited to the United States for leaking military secrets.

He cited as evidence Assange’s “severe depression” and “psychotic symptoms”, which included auditory hallucinations while in solitary confinement in his cell at the high-security Belmarsh Prison in southwest London.

Kopelman told the Old Bailey court in …

WikiLeaks Assange’s US Extradition Case Resumes Today In London

September 7, 2020 9:04 am

The extradition case against WikiLeaks founder Australian Julian Assange will resume at the Central Criminal Court, the Old Bailey in London today.

The court would weigh evidence whether Assange should be extradited to the United States to face trial over the publication of secrets relating to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Assange, 49, is currently being held on remand at a high-security jail.

He faces 18 counts from US prosecutors that could see him jailed for up to 175 years.

The hearing at the Central Criminal Court, the Old Bailey, is due to last three to four weeks. It …

Assange Of WikiLeaks Had 2 Sons While Hiding In Ecuador

April 12, 2020 6:57 am

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange secretly fathered two sons while holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy in London.

The Mail on Sunday made the shocking revelation today.

It said the mother of the kids, is 37 year-old South African-born lawyer, Stella Morris.

She and Assange fell in love in 2015 at the time he was running away from Swedish authorities and extradition to the U.S.

She had visited him to work on a legal bid to halt his extraditions.

According to the report, the couple got engaged in 2017.

The children are now aged two and one.

When the elder child …

Trump’s War On Journalists Behind Assange Extradition Bid

February 24, 2020 4:55 pm

A lawyer for Julian Assange on Monday claimed the United States’ bid to extradite him is part of President Donald Trump’s “war on leakers and journalists”, as the WikiLeaks founder’s full extradition hearing opened in Britain.

Assange faces charges under the US Espionage Act for the 2010 release by his anti-secrecy website of a trove of files detailing the realities of US military campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq.

He spent much of the past decade holed up in Ecuador’s London embassy to avoid separate legal proceedings in Sweden, but Washington is now seeking his transfer to stand trial.

His lawyer …

Trump Offered Pardon To Assange If He Denied Russia Leak

February 19, 2020 4:36 pm

US President Donald Trump promised to pardon WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange if he denied Russia leaked emails of his 2016 election rival’s campaign, a London court was told on Wednesday.

Assange’s lawyer Jennifer Robinson said in a document that Trump relayed the offer through former US Congressman Dana Rohrabacher, the UK’s domestic Press Association news agency reported.

The White House quickly issued a denial that Trump had dangled a pardon in exchange for help in the Russia controversy, which has cast a shadow over his first term in office.

“The president barely knows Dana Rohrabacher other than he’s an ex-congressman. …