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Julian Assange

1971 – ? Australian Publisher, WikiLeaks founder

Australian founder of WikiLeaks.

Religion
Not publicly specified.
Affiliations
Founder and editor of WikiLeaks; released in a 2024 US plea deal after years in the Ecuadorian embassy and Belmarsh prison.

Julian Assange founded WikiLeaks in 2006 as a platform for publishing leaked documents from anonymous sources. Under his direction the site released some of the largest classified disclosures of the era, including the 2010 military and diplomatic leaks. He spent years avoiding extradition, first in Ecuador's London embassy and later in prison, before a 2024 plea deal freed him.

Connections

  • associate of Chelsea Manning — Supplied the documents WikiLeaks published in 2010.
  • associate of Chelsea Manning — WikiLeaks published the classified files Manning provided in 2010.
  • ally of Daniel Ellsberg — Ellsberg was a prominent public defender of Assange.
  • ally of Daniel Ellsberg — Publicly defended Assange and WikiLeaks and compared their work to his own.
  • associate of Edward Snowden — WikiLeaks aided Snowden's 2013 departure from Hong Kong.
  • associate of Edward Snowden — WikiLeaks helped arrange his travel out of Hong Kong.

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