Royaume-Uni : La justice britannique examine la demande d'extradition de Julian Assange | International L'Australien de 39 ans, qui s'est fait connaître par la publication sur son site Internet de milliers de pages de documents diplomatiques confidentiels en provenance du gouvernement américain, a toujours réfuté les accusations qui pèsent contre lui. Il comparaît pour la cinquième fois devant la justice britannique depuis son arrestation à Londres, le 7 décembre dernier. La défense publie sa preuve sur Internet Son avocat, Mark Stephens, a annoncé dès l'ouverture des procédures que tous les arguments de la défense de Julian Assange seraient publiés sur Internet. « Nous mettrons en ligne, sur la page d'accueil de mon cabinet, les arguments de la défense. Selon les avocats de Julian Assange, les accusations d'agression sexuelle retenues contre lui par la justice suédoise sont une fabrication et une campagne de salissage destinée à l'obliger à se rendre en Suède. Les présumées victimes sont deux ex-employées de la section suédoise de WikiLeaks. Pas d'accusations formelles
Support Julian Assange in his quest for Freedom Guardian News & Media press release: Guardian Books to publish WikiLeaks book | GNM press office Guardian Books today confirmed the publication next month of WIKILEAKS: Inside Julian Assange's war on secrecy. With rights having already been sold in eight territories*, WIKILEAKS: Inside Julian Assange's war on secrecy, is the first in-depth account of the WikiLeaks phenomenon. From the website's launch in 2006, to the latest developments in this epoch-defining drama, it exposes the real story behind the headlines, a compelling and revelatory account that brings the reader right up to the present time. The authors, top Guardian journalists led by David Leigh, Investigations Editor, and Luke Harding, Moscow correspondent, have been at the heart of the Guardian's coverage of the biggest leak of secret information in history. Working alongside the Guardian's New York correspondent, Ed Pilkington, they have had unprecedented access to all the major players, from diplomats and politicians to the former WikiLeaks spokesman Daniel Domscheit-Berg and Julian Assange himself. Notes to editors:
WikiLeaks and Julian Assange The house on Grettisgata Street, in Reykjavik, is a century old, small and white, situated just a few streets from the North Atlantic. The shifting northerly winds can suddenly bring ice and snow to the city, even in springtime, and when they do a certain kind of silence sets in. This was the case on the morning of March 30th, when a tall Australian man named Julian Paul Assange, with gray eyes and a mop of silver-white hair, arrived to rent the place. Assange was dressed in a gray full-body snowsuit, and he had with him a small entourage. Assange is an international trafficker, of sorts. Iceland was a natural place to develop Project B. Assange also wanted to insure that, once the video was posted online, it would be impossible to remove. Assange typically tells would-be litigants to go to hell. In his writing online, especially on Twitter, Assange is quick to lash out at perceived enemies. In private, however, Assange is often bemused and energetic. “That’s for you,” she said.
Did Assange Play Lawyer? A recently published book excerpt suggests that “Jay Lim,” an occasional WikiLeaks spokesperson often identified as its legal advisor, was merely an online pseudonym of Julian Assange. The excerpts, posted on cryptome.org, are (naturally) leaked scans of an early copy of WikiLeaks’s defector Daniel Domscheit-Berg’s upcoming book. Domscheit-Berg, before his break with the organization, had long operated under the pseudonym of “Daniel Schmidt.” Domscheit-Berg, usually described as once being the organization’s second most important player, writes that Assange used many pseudonyms, and suggests that “Lim” may have been one of them: If true, this naturally raises questions about the historic quality of legal advice WikiLeaks did (or, perhaps more accurately, did not) receive, and the seriousness with which the organization approached legal questions. One person who claimed that WikiLeaks sources would be well protected under Swedish law was “Jay Lim.” What would “Jay Lim” think of that?
SBS Dateline | Assange Speaks Julian Assange, the controversial founder of WikiLeaks, was back in the spotlight this week, as he fights to avoid extradition to from the . Mark Davis has been in the courtroom, following the extradition hearing. He sat down with Assange for an exclusive one on one interview when the court went into recess a few days ago. REPORTER: Mark Davis Julian Assange is a wanted man. He is wanted by the world's media, American authorities and more pressingly by Swedish prosecutors. JULIAN ASSANGE, WIKILEAKS FOUNDER: What we have seen is process abuse after process abuse being revealed for hours and hours. A judgment may be a fortnight away, but it is not just legal default that Assange is fending off right now. I caught up with Assange again in during a break in the extradition hearings a few days ago. REPORTER: Thanks for your time, Julian. JULIAN ASSANGE: When you are in this business, people try to take any point they can to malign you and stop the power of your publication. JULIAN ASSANGE: Yes.
Philosophers Zone - 26 February 2011 - The Julian Assange Conspiracy - Networks, power and activism Alan Saunders: This week on The Philosopher's Zone, we're still online, still thinking about Wikileaks, As you must have heard by now, it's founder, Julian Assange has, pending an appeal, lost his legal battle in the British courts to escape extradition to Sweden to face sex crime allegations. We though are turning our attention to the political philosophy of Julian Assange. Hi, I'm Alan Saunders. The reason Assange has been leaking all this information is that he believes that this is a way to dismantle the conspiracies of the powerful, so Assange's view of conspiracies is what we're going to be talking about this week, with the help of somebody who's written on the subject, Peter Ludlow, Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University in the U.S. Peter Ludlow: Thanks a lot. Alan Saunders: One of the goals of Assange's project is to dismantle, as I said, what he calls 'conspiracies', but he doesn't use the word 'conspiracy' in the way that most of us use it. Peter Ludlow: Right.
Julian Assange dépose son nom comme marque commerciale S'il fallait une preuve supplémentaire que Wikileaks est aujourd'hui dépassé voire dévoré par l'image de son créateur, en voici une nouvelle. Julian Assange a déposé auprès du Bureau de la Propriété Intellectuelle britannique une demande de marque commerciale sur les termes "Julian Assange". Sa demande qui vise à obtenir le monopole d'exploitation lucrative de son nom a été déposée le 14 février, jour de la Saint Valentin, et sera officiellement publiée le 4 mars pour ouvrir le délai légal d'opposition. Julian Assange demande à être titulaire de sa marque sur la classe 41 des marques commerciales britanniques, qui correspond aux domaines suivants : services de parole en public ; services de nouvelles ; journalisme ; publication de textes autres que les textes publicitaires ; services d'éducation ; services de divertissement.
The Cypherpunk Revolutionary Julian Assange 18 March 2011. Robert Manne's update of this essay: 5 March 2011. 5 March 2011. The Cypherpunk Revolutionary Julian Assange The Monthly, March 2011, pp. 17-35 [Robert Manne is a professor in the School of Social Sciences at La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia.] FEWER THAN 20 YEARS AGO JULIAN ASSANGE WAS SLEEPING ROUGH. Murdoch's importance rests in his responsibility for injecting, through Fox News, the poison of rabid populist conservatism into the political culture of the United States; Assange's in the revolutionary threat his idea of publishing damaging documentary information sent by anonymous insiders to WikiLeaks poses to governments and corporations across the globe. According to Assange, his mother left her Queensland home for Sydney at the age of 17, around 1970, at the time of the anti-Vietnam War movement when the settled culture of the western world was breaking up. Alas, he was.