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WikiLeaks founder and publisher Julian Assange has been granted leave by the UK High Court to appeal against a bid to extradite him to the US to stand trial on espionage charges.

In just 11 days, a British court will decide whether to extradite WikiLeaks founder and publisher Julian Assange to the US where he will face trial on espionage charges.

News Corporation has stepped up its attacks on WikiLeaks founder and publisher Julian Assange, publishing two articles over the weekend about all the alleged faults of the jailed activist.

In the same way that a hungry traveller who has been wandering in the wilderness without food or water for months would grab at any sustenance, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has leapt upon a throwaway remark from US President Joe Biden about freedom for WikiLeaks founder and publisher Julian Assange.

WikiLeaks founder and publisher Julian Assange has been unable to appear in court in person due to being ill on the first day of a final hearing to decide if he would be able to make a full appeal against being extradited to the US.

Six Australian MPs will visit the US on 20 and 21 September to lobby for the release of WikiLeaks founder and publisher Julian Assange.

A virtual protest against the planned extradition of WikiLeaks founder and publisher Julian Assange will be held on 26 August at 5pm London time (2am AEDT 27 August), the organisers have announced.

WikiLeaks founder and publisher Julian Assange turns 52 on Monday, still stuck in the UK's Belmarsh maximum security jail as he waits to hear the outcome of a second appeal to the High Court against a British extradition order.

WikiLeaks founder and publisher Julian Assange has lost an appeal to the High Court against a British extradition order which aims to send him to the US for trial over alleged espionage charges.

Supporters of jailed WikiLeaks founder and publisher Julian Assange will be staging protests on Saturday to call for his release.

British Home Secretary Priti Patel has approved the extradition of WikiLeaks founder and publisher Julian Assange to the US to face criminal charges there. The extradition order was issued on 20 April and sent to Patel for her approval.

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.