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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.

Canada's ambassador to China, John McCallum, has backtracked on comments he made, about detained Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou having a good case against extradition to the US, claiming he "misspoke".

Ecuador is making moves to try and strip WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange of his citizenship, granted last year, in order to comply with reported US demands for his extradition to be tried on charges of leaking secrets.

Ecuador President Lenin Moreno has said he has no objection to the UK agreeing to extradite WikiLeaks' publisher Julian Assange to the US, if there is an understanding that he will not face the death penalty for his publishing of leaked US military secrets.

Internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom has lost a bid in the New Zealand Court of Appeal to have a ruling, that found he could be extradited to the United States, dropped.

The US has decided not to appeal the decision by a British court to oppose the extradition of British security researcher Lauri Love to the US to face charges of allegedly breaching the computer networks of a number of federal government agencies.

British security researcher Lauri Love's appeal against extradition to the US for trial on charges of hacking into NASA, the FBI, and the US Federal Reserve will be heard at the High Court in London on 28 and 29 November.

The man who broke the Internet’s copyright conventions long before Kim ‘DotKardashian’ pimped her shiny butt in Paper magazine, Kim Dotcom, says he is broke, but is it all just a disinformative joke?