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Jack Teixeira joins the league of America's infamous whistleblowers, hackers: What happened to them?
Vibhutisanchala •A 21-year-old US air force official identified as Jack Teixeira has been arrested as a suspect for the largest intelligence leak in a decade. The investigation evokes memories of other prominent whistleblowers such as Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning
Australian PM Anthony Albanese urges end to Julian Assange proceeding
•Assange, an Australian citizen, has been held in a London prison since 2019 pending a US extradition request to face trial for divulging US military secrets in 2010 about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
Blurring the lines between journalist and spy: A curious case of Julian Assange
Shafiaparveen •The decade-long and single-minded persecution of Julian Assange by the Western powers is a resounding warning to all people in pursuit of truth
Australia's Anthony Albanese refuses to publicly intervene on Julian Assange's deportation
•The Australian government has been under mounting pressure to intervene since the British government last week ordered Assange's extradition to the United States on spying charges
UK approves Julian Assange’s US extradition: A look back at Wikileaks founder's 'crimes’, his long legal battle
Fp Explainers •To his supporters, the 50-year-old is a secrecy-busting journalist who exposed US military wrongdoing in Iraq and Afghanistan. But US prosecutors claim Assange put lives at risk when he helped intelligence agent Chelsea Manning steal diplomatic cables and military files which Wikileaks later publish
UK government approves extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange
•The extradition order follows a British court ruling in April that Assange could be sent to the US over WikiLeaks' publication of a huge trove of classified documents more than a decade ago
UK court formally issues order to extradite Julian Assange to United States
•The US has asked British authorities to extradite Assange so he can stand trial on 17 charges of espionage and one charge of computer misuse
London court to issue warrant on Julian Assange's extradition to US on 20 April
•The WikiLeaks founder is wanted by the US on espionage charges after organisation published thousands of classified documents. If put on trial and convicted in the US, Assange may be sentenced to up to 175 years in prison
WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange wins permission to appeal US extradition decision
•Washington wants to put the 50-year-old WikiLeaks founder on trial in connection with the publication of 500,000 secret military files relating to the US-led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
Supporters mark 1,000 days since Julian Assange was imprisoned, call for Wikileaks founder's release
Trendingdesk •Wikileaks came into prominence after it published a series of leaks related to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The information was given to Assange by former US army analyst Chelsea Manning