Julian Assange News

Assange supporters in David Cameron and Anonymous masks wait for the WikiLeaks founder outside the Ecuadorean embassy.

Iceland has received an informal approach from an intermediary who says NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden wants to seek asylum there, it has emerged.

Before jumping to conclusions about Snowden's motives and masters, let's look at our history with smearing whistleblowers, writes Kirsten Powers.

There was a gathering on Twitter that few people would have expected: RenA© PA©rez, better known as "Residente" from the musical group Calle 13 -a group that resists any type of classification-, and Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks , gathered ideas and suggestions from Twitter users to write a song together that will go on Calle ... (more)

It has been one year since Julian Assange sought political asylum inside Ecuador's embassy in London.

Majid has been a member of The Independent's online editorial team since December 2007.

David Cameron has refused to comment on reports that GCHQ - Britain's electronic eavesdropping agency - mounted an intensive spying operation on foreign politicians attending two G20 summit meetings in London in 2009.

Stone went on to praise WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and Bradley Manning, and condemned President Barack Obama's adminstration for prosecuting whistleblowers.

A supporter holds a picture of Edward Snowden, a former CIA employee who leaked top-secret information about U.S. surveillance programs, outside the U.S. Consulate General in Hong Kong Thursday, June 13, 2013.

It is an odd sight: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is wearing a jacket and tie, but no shoes.

LONDON: Being cooped up in a building for nearly a year has started to take a toll on Julian Assange's health.

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In his new documentary, "We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks," Oscar-winning director Alex Gibney tries to construct a portrait of one of the most intriguing and confounding characters in recent global history - and completely fails at the task.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is to be extradited to Sweden to face allegations of rape and sexual assault, according to the ruling of a British court here today.

I wouldn't call it 'burying the lede' but there was an interesting tidbit in the last two paragraphs of this story.

The U.S. government's "war on terror" and its companion "surveillance state" have become troubling issues not only for the civil liberties of Americans but even more so for the rest of the world where popular movements are arising to challenge the electronic penetration of people's information and violation of their privacy.

Daniel Ellsberg speaks during an interview in Los Angeles in September 2009. The former Pentagon analyst was indicted for leaking classified government information about the Vietnam War in 1971 to The New York Times and other newspapers.

WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange has revealed how he is spending some of his time living in the Ecuadorean embassy in London - working on a song with Puerto Rican band Calle 13. ``We are making an interesting song about the new politics as a result of internet and media distortion,'' the Australian told reporters in an interview at the embassy on ... (more)

In this photo released by Arthit Suriyawongkul, a U.K. Home Office Carrier Alert notice about NSA leaker Edward Snowden is seen at an airline check-in counter at Chiang Mai airport in Thailand.

As the world wrestles with the hero-or-traitor conundrum posed by ex-CIA technician Edward Snowden and his bombshell revelations about U.S. government surveillance of citizens' email and phone traffic, longtime promoters of the whistle-blowing movement - a now-global phenomenon launched by American political activist Ralph Nader in 1971 - are ... (more)