Julian Assange

Julian Assange's lawyers say they plan to ask President Emmanuel Macron to grant their client asylum in France.

In the latest twist, a lawyer for Julian Assange says the Trump administration offered to pardon the WikiLeaks founder if he agreed to say Russia wasn't involved in leaking Democratic National Committee emails.

One of the lawyers for Assange, who is in a UK jail, told Euronews his client had been "weakened by detention conditions which are absolutely extraordinary".

The full hearing on whether to extradite WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange to the US will be held next February.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange missed a scheduled court appearance on Thursday because he is unwell, his lawyer said.

The US Department of Justice (DoJ) has announced 17 new criminal charges against Julian Assange, including Espionage Act charges connected with publishing classified material.

Swedish prosecutors filed a request for Julian Assange's arrest over rape allegations they are investigating.

Sweden's deputy prosecutor announced Monday that she will reopen the preliminary investigation into a rape case against Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange.

Brock Chisholm, a consultant clinical psychologist who examined Assange multiple times over the last year, told Euronews the thing that had the most profound effect on the Wikileaks founder was the threat of what might happen if he left the embassy.

The founder of Wikileaks was found guilty of skipping bail by Westminster Magistrates Court on Thursday afternoon - after having been dragged out of London's Ecuadorian embassy earlier on. However, the US Department of Justice made the extradition request that prompted his arrest.

Ecuadorian Interior Minister Maria Paula Romo said a "close associate" of Assange had been arrested "for investigative purposes"

Following the arrest of the WikiLeaks founder, Trump distanced himself from a group whose work attacking Hillary Clinton he frequently cited during his first campaign.

The WikiLeaks founder was charged by U.S. officials with conspiring to hack into government computers.

Assange's complicated, almost decade long case came to a turning point today, when he was arrested in London as the U.S. seeks his extradition

Assange is wanted in the US over an investigation into WikiLeaks' leaking of classified documents concerning the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The US Department of Justice said the charge related specifically to conspiracy to commit computer intrusion with US whistleblower Chelsea Manning.