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Three years to the day after WikiLeaks founder and publisher Julian Assange was arrested in the UK and taken to a maximum-security prison, the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance, the body representing journalists in Australia, has called for his release.

The next hearing in the case of WikiLeaks founder and publisher Julian Assange will be on 20 April at the Westminster Magistrate's Court on which day the order for his extradition to the United States will be issued.

Australian politicians who have expressed support for WikiLeaks founder and publisher Julian Assange need to act fast to prevent him from being extradited from the UK to the US, following the Supreme Court's rejection of an appeal to hear his case this week.

The UK Supreme Court has turned down an appeal from WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to hear arguments against his extradition to the US.

A man accused of being behind the attack on Kaseya, a managed services provider, in July last year, has appeared in court in Texas and been arraigned.

WikiLeaks founder and publisher Julian Assange could seek permission from Britain's Supreme Court to contest the verdict of a two-bench High Court panel which, on Friday, reversed a lower court's decision to deny a US request for his extradition.

Lawyers pushing to overturn a British verdict to deny the extradition of WikiLeaks founder and publisher Julian Assange to the US have avoided any mention of a report that the CIA planned to kill him in 2017, during the two-day appeal that ended on Thursday.

A federal Labor MP has called for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to be brought home to avoid his possible extradition to the US to face alleged charges of espionage.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been given time until 29 March to respond to the US appeal to revoke a British judge's decision not to extradite him to America to face trial on espionage charges.

A British judge has ruled that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange should not be extradited to the US to face espionage charges, saying the risk that he would commit suicide are too high. Washington has a fortnight to decide whether it wants to appeal against the judgment.

What is the value of an Australian passport? I'm sure that this question would have passed through the mind of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, one of the best hackers this country has produced — and I mean that in the original sense, as someone who plays around with software — many times over the years he has spent trying to hide from the US and UK authorities.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange may be able to escape a future in jail given that a decision on whether to send him to the US or not will be taken only in 2021.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was offered a deal by the US in 2017, with California Republican Dana Rohrabacher telling him that President Donald Trump would pardon him if he denied any material he had received from a 2016 hack of the Democratic National Committee did not come from the Russians.

The extradition of WikiLeaks founder and publisher Julian Assange is now up to the courts when he faces a hearing on Friday UK time, with the British Home Secretary Sajid Javid confirming that he has signed the orders needed.

The US Department of Justice has made a formal request to the UK to extradite WikiLeaks publisher and founder Julian Assange to face charges of conspiring to break into US Government computers and violation of an espionage law after he serves a jail term in Britain.

WikiLeaks publisher and founder Julian Assange has been moved to health ward of Belmarsh Prison where he is incarcerated for jumping bail, with the whistleblower organisation expressing "grave concerns" about the state of his health.

Sweden has said it will seek to extradite WikiLeaks founder and publisher Julian Assange from the UK to face a reopened investigation into a rape allegation against him.

The Australian Greens have called on the Federal government to ensure that WikiLeaks founder and publisher Julian Assange is not extradited to the US after his arrest in London overnight.

Lawyers handling the case of Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou, who was detained in Vancouver on 1 December on a US request, will seek to portray the extradition request made by Washington as an abuse of the Canadian legal process and due to political reasons.

Canada's ambassador to China, John McCallum, has been sacked by his country's government for making statements about the arrest by Ottawa of Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou that were favourable to the Chinese side.