Julian Assange

The founder of the whistle-blowing organization WikiLeaks on Friday held an online question and answer session having in recent days embarrassed the U.S. government by publishing confidential embassy reports.

Amazon removed whistle blowing website WikiLeaks from its servers amid pressure from federal lawmakers who were upset with WikiLeaks' recent release of certain confidential and sensitive government information.

The highest Court in Sweden has rejected Wikileaks founder Julian Assange's appeal against his detention orders on Thursday. The Apex Court confirmed the earlier decision of the Svea Appeals Court to uphold the detention order. Earlier this week Assange's lawyer appealed against an arrest warrant issued against the 39-year-old Australian.

The founder of the controversial whistleblower website, Wikileaks, has been placed on Interpol’s international wanted persons list, the international police organization announced today.

Interpol has issued a Red Notice for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. France-based international police organization charged Assange of sex crimes and put him on its most wanted list. The 39-year-old Australian was wanted for questioning over rape allegations against him. The Notice is likely to make his international travel more complicated. Meanwhile, Ecuador President also denied reports of offering residency to Assange.

You only live once, why not do something worthwhile? says Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.

Ecuador on Monday offered residence to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange ‘with no problems and no conditions’.

The US State Department has refused to accept the olive branch offered by Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to negotiate on publication of the documents later on Sunday. Instead, the US sought immediate handover of documents and resist from publicatiooon or distribution of the documents, failing which it said action will be taken against the whistleblower website.

In getting hold of damaging details about the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, the organization has been apparently assisted by a rogue U.S. Army Private who downloaded secret cables in their thousands and handed them over to Assange's fledgling organization.

The U.S. Department of State is working overtime sending messages to ally capitals warning the impending release of classified documents by WikiLeaks could harm relations in what is seen as a pre-emptive move of unprecedented scale to neutralize the impact of the unveiling of embarrassing and compromising details about the inner workings of the government apparatus.

Whistleblowing website WikiLeaks is planning a mega-release of nearly 2.8 million secret documents.

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is likely to be detained for questioning over his alleged connection to a rape case. The Director of Prosecution, Marianne Ny, has requested the District Court of Stockholm to detain Assange, claiming that they have not been able to meet with him to accomplish the interrogations.

A top Swedish prosecutor said on Wednesday she was reopening an investigation into rape allegations against Julian Assange, the founder of whistleblowing website WikiLeaks.

Sweden's Chief Prosecutor said on Wednesday she was reopening a preliminary investigation into rape charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

The Pentagon demanded on Thursday that whistle-blower web site WikiLeaks immediately hand over about 15,000 secret Afghan war records it had not yet published and erase material it had already put online.