WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange Will Plead Guilty, Be Freed From Prison in Deal with US

The guilty plea brings an abrupt conclusion to a criminal case of international intrigue and to the U.S. government’s years-long pursuit of the publisher.

Biden Says He Will Consider Request To Drop Prosecution of WikiLeaks Founder

Julian Assange’s supporters say he is a journalist protected by the First Amendment who exposed U.S. military wrongdoing that was in the public interest.

WikiLeaks’ Assange Waits To Find Out Whether He Can Challenge Extradition to US

Attorneys for the U.S. said he put innocent lives at risk and went beyond journalism in his bid to publish classified U.S. government documents.

WikiLeaks Founder Faces His Last Legal Roll of the Dice in Britain To Avoid US Extradition

Assange has been fighting extradition for more than a decade related to espionage charges over his website’s publication of classified U.S. documents almost 15 years ago.

Gene Policinski Commentary: New Assange Charges Raise Two First Amendment Alarms

The Newseum Institute’s First Amendment expert, Gene Policinski, originally published this commentary on June 13, 2019, on the Newseum blog, and has given First Amendment Watch permission to reprint. For […]