Julian Paul Assange is an Australian editor, publisher, and activist. He founded WikiLeaks in 2006. In November 2010, Sweden issued an international arrest warrant for Assange over allegations of sexual assault. Assange said the allegations were a pretext for him to be extradited from Sweden to the United States because of his role in publishing secret American documents. He breached bail and took refuge in the Embassy of Ecuador in London in June 2012. He was granted asylum by Ecuador on the grounds of political persecution. On 11 April 2019, Assange’s asylum was withdrawn and he was arrested. On 23 May 2019, the U.S. government further charged Assange with violating the Espionage Act of 1917. Assange is incarcerated in HM Prison Belmarsh, reportedly in ill health
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Julian Paul Assange is an Australian editor, publisher, and activist. He founded WikiLeaks in 2006. WikiLeaks came to international attention in 2010 when it published a series of leaks provided by U. S. Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning. In November 2010, Sweden issued an international arrest warrant for Assange over allegations of sexual assault. Assange said the allegations were a pretext for him to be extradited from Sweden to the United States because of his role in publishing secret American documents. After failing in his battle against extradition to Sweden, he breached bail and took refuge in the Embassy of Ecuador in London in June 2012. He was granted asylum by Ecuador on the grounds of political persecution. On 11 April 2019, Assange’s asylum was withdrawn and he was arrested. On 23 May 2019, the U.S. government further charged Assange with violating the Espionage Act of 1917. On 6 January 2021, Assange was denied bail. Assange is incarcerated in HM Prison Belmarsh, reportedly in ill health. Assange was born Julian Paul Hawkins on 3 July 1971 in Townsville, Queensland, to Christine Ann Hawkins, a visual artist,: 34 and John Shipton, an anti-war activist and builder. When Julian was a year old, his mother married Brett Assange, an actor, with whom she ran a small theatre company and whom Julian regards as his father. Christine had a house in Nelly Bay on Magnetic Island, where they lived from time to time until it was destroyed by fire.
Christine and Brett Assange divorced around 1979. Christine then became involved with Leif Meynell, also known as Leif Hamilton, a member of Australian cult The Family, and they had a son before breaking up in 1982. In September 1991, Assange discovered hacking into the Melbourne terminal of Nortel, a Canadian multinational telecommunications corporation. The Australian Federal Police tapped Assange’s phone line at his home and eventually charged him with 31 counts of hacking and related crimes. In December 1996, he pleaded guilty to 24 charges and was ordered to pay reparations of A$2,100. He received a lenient penalty and received a good behaviour bond due to the malicious intent of his crimes. While in his teens, Assange may have been involved in the WANK at NASA in 1989, but this has never been proven. In 1989, Assange married a girl named Teresa, and in 1989 the couple separated and disputed custody of Assange’s brown hair until 1999. The couple had a boy named Daniel until 1999, during the time of the custody dispute, Assange turned white and turned white hair brown. Julian had a nomadic childhood, living in over 30 Australian towns and cities by the time he reached his mid-teens, when he settled with his mother and half-brother in Melbourne. In 1987, aged 16, Assange began hacking under the name Mendax, taken from Horace’s splendide mendax — nobly untruthful. He and two others formed a hacking group they called \”the International Subversives\”.
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