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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange pauses as he makes a statement to media gathered outside the High Court in London, on Dec. 5, 2011. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Saturday, July 29, 2023, pushed back against Australian demands for an end to Assange’s prosecution, saying the Australian citizen was accused of “very serious criminal conduct” in publishing a trove of classified documents more than a decade ago. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)

Australia’s prime minister stands firm against the U.S. on WikiLeaks founder’s prosecution

By Rod McGuirk - Associated Press

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken talks to Australian Minister of Defense Richard Marles and Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong during Session I at Queensland Government House in Brisbane, Australia, Saturday, July 29, 2023. (Pat Hoelscher/Pool Photo via AP)

U.S. Secretary of State tells Australia that WikiLeaks founder is accused of ‘very serious’ crime

By Rod McGuirk - Associated Press

Buildings are reflected in the window as WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is taken from court, where he appeared on charges of jumping British bail seven years ago, in London, on May 1, 2019. A British judge has rejected the latest attempt by Assange to fight extradition to the United States to face spying charges. High Court justice Jonathan Swift said a new appeal would simply “re-run” arguments that Assange’s lawyers had already made and lost. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File)

Amnesty International condemns U.K. extradition of Julian Assange to U.S.

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

Stella Assange, wife of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, takes questions after speaking at the National Press Club of Australia in Canberra, Monday, May 22, 2023. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said he was working in the "most effective way possible" to secure the release of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange but declined on Monday an invitation to meet the Australian citizen’s wife. (Mick Tsikas/AAP Image via AP)

Australian prime minister says he is working effectively to free WikiLeaks founder

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Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, right greets the President of Brazil, Lula da Silva during their meeting inside 10 Downing Street London, Friday, May 5, 2023. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, POOL)

In London, Brazil’s Lula calls for efforts to free Assange

By David Biller and Tatiana Pollastri - Associated Press

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange greets supporters on May 19, 2017, outside the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, where he has been in self imposed exile since 2012. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese expressed frustration at the United States’ continuing efforts to extradite WikiLeaks founder and Australian citizen Julian Assange, saying: “There is nothing to be served by his ongoing incarceration.” Albanese made his comments Friday, May 5, 2023, in an Australian Broadcasting Corp. interview. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, File)

Australia PM: U.S. effort to extradite Assange not worth it

By Rod McGuirk - Associated Press

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FILE - Buildings are reflected in the window as WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is taken from court, where he appeared on charges of jumping British bail seven years ago, in London, Wednesday May 1, 2019. The British government on Friday, June 17, 2022 ordered the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States to face spying charges. He is likely to appeal. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File)

Julian Assange and freedom of speech

By Andrew P. Napolitano

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange speaks on the balcony of the Ecuadorean Embassy in London, Friday, Feb. 5, 2016. The British government on Friday, June 17, 2022, ordered the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States to face spying charges. He is likely to appeal. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

Assange case: U.K. approves extradition to U.S.; he plans to appeal

By Jill Lawless - Associated Press

An image of Julian Assange is projected onto a building in Leake Street in central London on Sunday, April 10, 2022, to mark three years since his arrest and detention in Belmarsh prison while the United States continues with legal moves to extradite him. Assange, 50, has been held in the high security prison in southeast London since 2019 on a series of charges related to WikiLeaks’ publication of a huge trove of classified documents more than a decade ago. (Victoria Jones/PA via AP)

Judge sends Assange extradition decision to U.K. government

By Jill Lawless - Associated Press

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange greets supporters from a balcony of the Ecuadorian embassy in London, May 19, 2017. Britain’s top court on Monday March 14, 2022, refused WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange permission to appeal against a decision to extradite him to the U.S. to face spying charges. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, File)

Julian Assange denied permission to appeal by U.K.’s top court

By Sylvia Hui and Jill Lawless - Associated Press

A view of a banner that Julian Assange supporters fixed to a railing, outside the High Court in London, Friday, Dec. 10, 2021. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein) ** FILE **

Assange wins first stage in effort to appeal U.S. extradition

By Danica Kirka - Associated Press

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange being taken from court, where he appeared on charges of jumping British bail seven years ago, in London, Wednesday May 1, 2019. Britain's High Court is set to rule on whether WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange can take his fight against U.S. extradition to the U.K. Supreme Court. The decision is the latest step in Assange's long battle to avoid being sent to the United States to face espionage charges over WikiLeaks' publication of classified documents. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File)

U.K. court to rule on Assange bid to prevent U.S. extradition

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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange gestures as he talks during a news conference in central London, Thursday, Dec. 1, 2011. A British appellate court has opened the door for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to be extradited to the United States. The High Court overturned a lower court ruling that found Assange's mental health was too fragile to withstand the American criminal justice system. A lower court judge earlier this year refused an American request to extradite Assange to the U.S. to face spying charges over WikiLeaks publication of secret military documents a decade ago. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, File)

U.K. court permits Assange extradition to U.S. on spying charges

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Supporters of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange hold placards and take part in a march in London, Saturday, Oct. 23, 2021, ahead of next week's extradition case appeal. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)

U.S. set to appeal U.K. refusal to extradite WikiLeaks’ Assange

By Jill Lawless - Associated Press

FILE - In this Friday May 19, 2017 file photo, Julian Assange greets supporters outside the Ecuadorian embassy in London. Britain’s High Court on Wednesday July 7, 2021, has granted the U.S. government permission to appeal a decision that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange cannot be sent to the United States to face espionage charges. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, File)

Ecuador revokes Julian Assange’s citizenship

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In this Friday May 19, 2017 file photo, Julian Assange greets supporters outside the Ecuadorian embassy in London. Britain’s High Court on Wednesday July 7, 2021, has granted the U.S. government permission to appeal a decision that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange cannot be sent to the United States to face espionage charges. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, File)

British High Court court allows U.S. to appeal rejection of Julian Assange extradition request

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

Stella Moris stands with her children Gabriel, four, left, and Max, two, as she speaks to the media, outside Belmarsh Prison, following a visit to her partner and their father Julian Assange in London, Saturday June 19, 2021. Assange is being detained in Belmarsh prison in London while the US continues an attempt to extradite him under the US's 1917 Espionage Act for "unlawfully obtaining and disclosing classified documents related to the national defence". (Dominic Lipinski/PA via AP)

Julian Assange’s fiancee pleads for Biden to intervene: WikiLeaks founder suffering in ‘grim’ prison

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

In this Wednesday May 1, 2019 file photo, buildings are reflected in the window as WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is taken from court, where he appeared on charges of jumping British bail seven years ago, in London. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File)

British MPs petition Biden to drop Julian Assange prosecution

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

Demonstrators hold banners outside Westminster Magistrates Court in London, Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2020. A case-management hearing regarding Julian Assange will be heard at the court Wednesday. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

Edward Snowden rips Kamala Harris over press freedom assertions

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times