The leader of the left-wing opposition in France, Jean-Luc Melanson, announced today that he will grant French citizenship to Julian Assange if he is appointed prime minister. The British government today signed a warrant for the release of the journalist and founder of the Wikileaks website to the United States, where he is being prosecuted […]
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Protest in London against Assange
Around 200 to 300 people protested in London on Tuesday, demanding that the British government refuse to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who is facing US prosecution for leaking hundreds of thousands of secret and secret military documents. Correspondent of the French Agency. After a long court battle, the British justice officially gave the green […]
Assange is appealing to the British Supreme Court against his extradition to the United States
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Friday appealed to Britain’s Supreme Court against a lower court ruling earlier in December that effectively allowed him to be extradited to the United States. U.S. authorities have charged 50-year-old Australian-born Assange with 18 counts of leaking WikiLeaks secret US military files and diplomatic telegrams, which they say endangered lives. […]
US wins appeal against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange
Washington has won an appeal to the London Supreme Court seeking annulment of a previous ruling not to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States. “The court allows the appeal,” said Judge Timothy Holroyd. The judge said he was satisfied with assurances from the United States about Assange’s detention, including his commitment not […]
Trump friend Roger Stone sentenced to prison for WikiLeaks lies
A federal judge sentenced President Donald Trump’s friend, longtime Republican operative Roger Stone, on Thursday to more than three years in prison for lying to Congress and tampering with a witness in an effort to protect Trump. “He was not prosecuted, as some have complained, for standing up for the president, he was prosecuted for […]
Prosecutors say Trump ally Roger Stone deserves prison sentence
Roger Stone, a former adviser to U.S. President Donald Trump, leaves the Prettyman United States Courthouse after a hearing February 1, 2019 in Washington, DC. Mark Wilson | Getty Images A top federal prosecutor said in a new legal filing Tuesday that Republican operative Roger Stone deserves to be sentenced to “far less” time in […]
Trump ally Roger Stone should go to prison for up to 9 years, prosecutors say
President Donald Trump early Tuesday blasted federal prosecutors for seeking a prison term of between seven and nine years for his longtime ally Roger Stone, a Republican political operative convicted of lying to Congress in the Russian election meddling probe. Prosecutors on Monday had called for that long prison term by citing the seriousness of […]