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ASSANGE
- Julian Paul Assange born 3 July 1971) is an Australian journalist, computer programmer and the founder and director of WikiLeaks.Assange describes himself as an advocate of information transparency and market libertarianism
- In April 2019, he was arrested and placed in police custody in London, England for breaching bail conditions in December 2010. Immediately before his arrest, he had been under the protection of Ecuador as a refugee, having been accorded asylum by the Government of Ecuador in 2012. He spent his seven-year asylum period in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London.
- Assange founded WikiLeaks in 2006, an international publishing organisation known for revealing war crimes, human rights abuses, and corruption.
EARLY LIFE
- Julian Paul Hawkins was born on 3 July 1971 in Townsville, Queensland, to Christine Ann Hawkins (b. 1951),a visual artist, and John Shipton, an anti-war activist and builder.The couple separated before their son was born.
- Assange had a nomadic childhood, and had lived in over thirty Australian towns and cities by the time he reached his mid-teens, when he settled with his mother and half-brother in Melbourne, Victoria.
- He studied programming, mathematics, and physics at Central Queensland University (1994) and the University of Melbourne (2003–2006), but did not complete a degree.
HACKING
- In 1987, aged 16, Assange began hacking under the name Mendax (Latin for “liar”). He and two others— known as “Trax” and “Prime Suspect”—formed a hacking group they called the International Subversives.
- In September 1991, Assange was discovered hacking into the Melbourne master terminal of Nortel, a Canadian multinational telecommunications corporation.
- The Australian Federal Police tapped Assange’s phone line , raided his home at the end of October,and eventually charged him in 1994 with thirty-one counts of hacking and related crimes.
PROGRAMMER
- He was involved in starting one of the first public Internet service providers in Australia, Suburbia Public Access Network.
- In 1998, he co-founded the company Earthmen Technology. Assange stated that he registered the domain leaks.org in 1999, but “didn’t do anything with it”.
WIKILEAKS
- After his period of study at the University of Melbourne, Assange and others established WikiLeaks in 2006. Assange is a member of the organisation’s advisory board and describes himself as the editor-in-chief.
- From 2007 to 2010, Assange travelled continuously on WikiLeaks business, visiting Africa, Asia, Europe and North America.
- WikiLeaks published secret information, news leaks, and classified media from anonymous sources. By 2015, WikiLeaks had published more than 10 million documents
POLITICAL ASYLUM
- On 19 June 2012, the Ecuadorian foreign minister, Ricardo Patiño, announced that Assange had applied for political asylum, that his government was considering the request, and that Assange was at the Ecuadorian embassy in London.
- Wikileaks insiders stated that Assange made the decision to seek asylum because he felt abandoned by the Australian government.
- Assange and his supporters state he is concerned not about any proceedings in Sweden as such, but believe that his deportation to Sweden could lead to politically motivated deportation to the United States
POLITICAL ASYLUM
- On 16 August 2012, Patiño announced that Ecuador was granting Assange political asylum because of the threat represented by the United States secret investigation against him
- On May 19, 2017, Sweden said it would drop its rape investigation of Julian Assange. Assange was granted Ecuadorian citizenship in December 2017, but his relationship with his adopted country soon soured.
- In April 2019, after Ecuador announced the withdrawal of Assange’s asylum, the WikiLeaks founder was arrested at the London embassy.
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