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JULIAN ASSANGE
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Assange’s Eva Peron moment
Julian Assange emerged from the Ecuador embassy in London and stood on its balcony to give a speech calling for the United States to promise it won’t extradite him. Peter Jukes reports from London.
READ MORE‘Preconcert’ and the strange coincidences around Julian Assange
The behaviour of multiple governments toward Julian Assange undermines the argument that he’s not the target of a campaign.
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Pundit Grech … Assange’s media charges … women’s sport cuts …
Watch out Paul Kelly and Peter Hartcher: there’s a new political pundit in town. Former Treasury mole Godwin Grech has emerged from his hole. Plus other media news of the day.
READ MOREHow Assange could sneak out of the embassy
Ecuador granted Julian Assange asylum but he remains trapped in its embassy in London. Vikram Dodd outlines the best escape routes for the WikiLeaks founder.
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Ecuador welcomes WikiLeaks founder
It may have been Rob Oakeshottesque in its delivery, but Ecuador’s Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino spoke extensively on international law and diplomatic relationships (oh, and also declared that Ecuador would grant asylum to Julian Assange).
READ MOREEcuador embraces Assange, but can he escape?
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been granted diplomatic asylum by the government of Ecuador. But it will take a Houdini-like effort to get there.
READ MOREAssange stand-off a debate between a threat and a right
The Ecuadorian government has launched a scathing attack on the UK, alleging that it has threatened to withdraw its embassy’s diplomatic status, in order to raid it, and arrest WikiLeaks supremo Julian Assange.
READ MOREStability and government
Crikey readers have their say.
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Assange interviews Ecuadorean President
With Julian Assange back in the media spotlight this morning following reported threats by police to enter the Ecuadorean embassy in London and arrest the WikiLeaks founder, it’s an interesting time to revisit Assange’s interview with Rafael Correa, President of Ecuador, which was recorded in May. Will the pair end up being neighbours?
READ MORESenor Assange, a Panama hat, now where’s the chopper?
Ecuador will grant political asylum to WikiLeaks supremo Julian Assange, according to unconfirmed reports immediately denied. But the scenarios for Assange are starting to take shape.
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Ranking countries according to their respect for the rule of law
An interesting sidelight to the efforts of Julia Assange to avoid extradition to Sweden …
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Are the govt’s Assange redactions
unjustified?
New FOI documents on Julian Assange reveal little — except the breadth with which bureaucrats interpret FOI exemptions.
READ MOREThe dirty tactics of TV news
Crikey readers have their say.
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On Assange, government defiant in face of reality
The government’s insistence on ignoring the Obama administration’s investigation of Julian Assange is becoming increasingly untenable as public evidence mounts of a grand jury and a continuing campaign by the US government against him.
READ MOREEssential: Labor voters torn about Greens, Assange support falls
Labor and Julia Gillard’s low support is stuck fast. And support for Julian Assange has fallen since he sought asylum with Ecuador.
READ MOREWikiLeaks partners a motley crew on Syria
WikiLeaks has now teamed with a bankrupt Spanish publisher, a French web upstart and a newspaper accused of bias towards the Assad regime as media partners for the release of 2.4 million Syrian government emails.
READ MOREUS increases harassment of WikiLeaks, Assange associates
The US government has ramped up its harassment of journalists and activists associated with WikiLeaks in recent months.
READ MOREWhat should be keeping Assange awake at night
Julian Assange’s fear of being extradited to the US over allegations of political crimes may be misguided — but he should be alert to alternative legal challenges, Donald K. Anton writes.
READ MOREAlbrechtsen confuses her idiots
Planet Janet Albrechtsen orbited into view again yesterday with a thundering denunciation of the “useful idiots” who had facilitated the soap opera of Julian Assange.
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Bob Carr, in full flight from the facts on Assange
On Insiders yesterday, Bob Carr made some very careful statements on Julian Assange designed to give the government cover, but he made some highly dubious and simply false assertions, writes Bernard Keane.
READ MOREThe extradition of Julian Assange
Crikey readers have their say.
READ MOREGreens back Assange asylum plea, but US has already won
Green Senator Scott Ludlam has backed Julian Assange’s claim that he has been abandoned by the government.
READ MOREThe problem with Assange
Crikey readers have their say.
READ MORERundle: Assange makes his escape into a diplomatic storm
Julian Assange has shocked his supporters with a creative new twist — turning up at the Ecuadorian embassy in London and asking for asylum. The international diplomatic mess is enormous.
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