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Buildings are reflected in the window as WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is taken from court, where he appeared on charges, Wednesday May 1, 2019 of jumping British bail seven years ago, in London. Assange will plead guilty to a felony charge in a deal with the U.S. Justice Department that will free him from prison and resolve a long-running legal saga over the publication of a trove of classified documents. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File)

Assange supporters hail plea deal, but critics fear ‘dangerous precedent’

By Alex Miller - The Washington Times

A Protester stands in front of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, Thursday, April 11, 2024, where Wikileaks founder Julian Assange was arrested five years ago . US President Joe Biden said Wednesday that he is considering a request from Australia to drop the decade-long U.S. push to prosecute Wikileaks founder Julian Assange for publishing a trove of American classified documents. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

Wife of Julian Assange says Biden’s comments mean case could be moving in the right direction

By Jill Lawless - 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. A London court is due to rule whether WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange can challenge extradition to the United States on espionage charges. Two judges will issue a ruling Tuesday morning in the High Court on whether Assange can make one final appeal in England. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File)

U.K. high court grants WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange reprieve in U.S. extradition fight

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

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. A London court is due to rule whether WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange can challenge extradition to the United States on espionage charges. Two judges will issue a ruling Tuesday morning in the High Court on whether Assange can make one final appeal in England. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File)

London court to rule on Tuesday whether WikiLeaks’ Assange can challenge extradition to U.S.

By Brian Melley - Associated Press

Barnaby Joyce, second left, and other members of a delegation to secure the release of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, speak to the media at Parliament House in Canberra, Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2023. The group of Australian lawmakers said Tuesday they would travel to Washington this month to lobby the United States to abandon its efforts to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. (Lukas Coch/(AAP Image via AP)

Australian lawmakers head to U.S. to lobby against efforts to extradite WikiLeaks founder Assange

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In this courtroom sketch, Joshua Schulte, center, is seated at the defense table flanked by his attorneys during jury deliberations, Wednesday March 4, 2020, in New York. Schulte, a former CIA software engineer accused of causing the biggest theft of classified information in CIA history, has told a jury Thursday, July 7, 2022 there's not enough evidence to convict him, as he defended himself at a retrial. (Elizabeth Williams via AP)

Ex-CIA engineer convicted in massive theft of secret info

By LLarry Neumeister and Tom Hays - 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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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 March 4, 2020 courtroom sketch Joshua Schulte, center, is seated at the defense table flanked by his attorneys during jury deliberations in New York. Joshua Schulte, a former CIA software engineer charged with leaking government secrets to WikiLeaks says it's cruel and unusual punishment that he's awaiting trial in solitary confinement, housed in a vermin-infested cell of a jail unit where inmates are treated like “caged animals.&quot; In court papers Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2021 Schulte maintained he is held in conditions “below that of impoverished persons living in third world countries.” (Elizabeth Williams via AP)

Josh Schulte, accused leaker, writes judge seeking relief from ‘unconstitutional’ jail conditions

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

A Julian Assange supporter wears a face mask bearing his name outside the Old Bailey in London, Monday, Jan. 4, 2021. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

Julian Assange case: Advocacy groups urge Biden admin to drop charges against WikiLeaks publisher

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

This Aug. 10, 2019, shows razor wire fencing at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)

Josh Schulte, accused CIA leaker, seeks relief from ‘abhorrent, unconscionable’ prison conditions

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

In this Wednesday, June 15, 2011, file photo, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is seen with his ankle security tag at the house where he is required to stay, near Bungay, England. Judge Vanessa Baraitser has ruled that Julian Assange cannot be extradited to the US. because of concerns about his mental health, it was reported on Monday, Jan. 4, 2021. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)

No pardons by Donald Trump for Edward Snowden, Julian Assange

By Dave Boyer - 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)

Edward Snowden implores Trump to pardon fellow leaker Julian Assange: ‘You alone can save his life’

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

In this file photo, Republican candidate for Georgia's 14th Congressional District seat Marjorie Taylor Greene speaks to Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr during a campaign rally for Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler Saturday, Oct. 31, 2020, in Roswell, Ga. Ms. Greene won her election and reported to House freshman orientation in Washington, D.C., days later. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)

Marjorie Taylor Greene calls for Trump to pardon Julian Assange, Edward Snowden: ‘Let them be free!’

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

In this courtroom sketch Joshua Schulte, center, is seated at the defense table flanked by his attorneys during jury deliberations, Wednesday March 4, 2020, in New York. (Elizabeth Williams via AP)

Retrial of Josh Schulte, alleged WikiLeaks source, set for June 2021

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

June retrial date set for ex-CIA engineer in leak case

By LARRY NEUMEISTER - Associated Press

The Capitol building in Washington, D.C. (Associated Press)

Republicans join Tulsi Gabbard on calling for U.S. to drop leak cases against Assange and Snowden

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

In this Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2017 file photo, Bosnian people watch the live TV broadcast from the International Criminal Court for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague as Slobodan Praljak brings a bottle to his lips, in southern Bosnian town of Mostar 140 kms south of Sarajevo. Julian Assange relayed how he “binge-watched” the suicide of the former Bosnian Croat general in a United Nations courtroom three years ago, a doctor who visited the WikiLeaks founder on several occasions while he was in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London told an extradition hearing Thursday, Sept, 24, 2020. (AP Photo/Amel Emric, file)

Julian Assange ‘binge-watched’ Slobodan Praljak suicide

By Pan Pylas - Associated Press

Julian Assange's lawyer Jennifer Robinson, center, and Assange's partner Stella Moris, right arrive to the Central Criminal Court Old Bailey in London, Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

Julian Assange lawyer tells court GOP congressman proposed deal to help Donald Trump

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

A demonstrator holds placards near the Central Criminal Court Old Bailey in London, Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2020. Lawyers for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and the U.S. government were squaring off in a London court on Monday at a high-stakes extradition case delayed by the coronavirus pandemic. American prosecutors have indicted the 49-year-old Australian on 18 espionage and computer misuse charges over Wikileaks' publication of secret U.S. military documents a decade ago. The charges carry a maximum sentence of 175 years in prison. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

Assange court case to resume after COVID-19 false alarm

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