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?
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Senor 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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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 MOREWikileaks strapped for cash
The purse strings at Wikileaks are getting tighter and tighter, the website now claiming it will go broke within a few months if donations do not dramatically increase, reports Jeanne Whalen.
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.
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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.
READ MOREAssange rolls the dice again on legal challenge
Julian Assange’s lawyers has sought to reopen his appeal with a small but critical technicality about how judges interpreted his case.
READ MOREJulian Assange — better off smuggling weapons in Baghdad?
A previously unreported case shows Australian diplomats can move quickly to help Australians in strife when they want to. So why not Julian Assange?
READ MORE‘Autorité judiciaire’: Assange undone by the French
Julian Assange’s extradition appeal was dismissed over a definitional issue, but his judges were divided over who had authority to demand his extradition.
READ MOREParliament Square hums with Assange discontent
A sunny day in Parliament Square, Big Ben shining, the remnant anti-war protest still attached to the security barriers, and a crowd anxious over the fate of a new freedom fighter.
READ MOREKeane: Assange loses appeal but stays in limbo
Julian Assange has lost his UK Supreme Court appeal against extradition to Sweden on a European Arrest Warrant to face sexual assault allegations in Sweden. Bernard Keane explains what will happen next.
READ MORETrade treaty ‘secrecy’ — does anyone benefit?
It’s time governments abandoned their selective secrecy when it comes to making treaties.
READ MOREBarack Obama’s remorseless assault on basic rights
Barack Obama’s record of violating basic rights is far worse than George W. Bush’s.
READ MOREUK rejects airline claim that security services stopped Robinson
The UK government has rejected claims that security services were behind the harassment of Australian lawyer Jen Robinson.
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WikiLeaks lawyer stopped by ‘security
services’
Virgin Atlantic, the airline that stopped WikiLeaks lawyer Jen Robinson in London, tells Crikey’s Bernard Keane that “security services” were responsible for the incident.
READ MOREWho stopped Robinson? The inhibition of responsibility
Governments have ensured that accountability for harassment is ever more difficult.
READ MORERundle: pursuit of Assange a product of fraught Swedish sex crime politics
Comparison between the evidence given by Anna Ardin, the complainant attached to the first three accusations, and the legal wording of the key complaint by her against Assange, show that it matches almost word-for-word a paragraph in a high-profile 2009 Amnesty International Report on sex crimes in the Nordic countries.
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