Confirmed: Australia and the U.S. exchange information about Assange

The exchange began after filtration of the first WikiLeaks cables Published: October 17, 2012 | 9:36 GMT Last Updated: October 17, 2012 | 21:25 GMT 22

Corbis WikiLeaks and Julian Assange have been the subject of an exchange confidential information between Australia and the United States for more than two years, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Australia. WikiLeaks founder was also one of the themes of the Australian intelligence reports from Washington shortly before Assange asked diplomatic asylum in the Ecuadorian embassy in London. On Tuesday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Canberra Fairfax Media confirmed the existence of an intelligence report concerning WikiLeaks and Assange released for the Australian capital from the Australian embassy in Washington on June 1.

18 days after losing legal battle to avoid extradition from the UK to Sweden to face charges of alleged sexual assault in the Scandinavian country, Assange sought diplomatic asylum in the Embassy of Ecuador in London. Australian diplomats have also confirmed that the start of the WikiLeaks information exchanges between U.S. secret services and Australia dates back more than two years, by revealing the existence of two intelligence reports sent from Washington to Canberra on 4 and 25 August 2010, ie around the portal be published by the first U.S. classified cables States on the war in Afghanistan. All intelligence agencies are represented on the Australian embassy in Washington and maintain close contact with their U.S. colleagues.

Meanwhile, the British foreign ministers, William Haig, and Ecuador, Ricardo Patiño, failed to resolve the impasse on the diplomatic and legal status of Assange. The British government says it is legally obligated to extradite Assange to Sweden and will not allow you to leave the Ecuadorian embassy to travel to the South American country. Meanwhile, the Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Assange has promised diplomatic asylum for a period of ten years.

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Fuck you, Dick.

I remember paying 150 quid to take a one way rail jouney: the UK is n't that big you fuck.

And who the fuck are they?

Jimmy Trilateral-comisiion Carter?

With that whole "excess of Democracy" thang?

www.chomsky.info/books/priorities01.htm

Yeah, Richy Pickle Sauce, "editing sources" would improve things, eh?

Beardy twat.

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Top post that also made me chuckle a bit. But in seriousness, it is infuriating, isn't it?
Editing sources? Even though he didn't say it to me sounds it as if he’s insinuating Assange should had been a good boy, come to heel and follow the script like the rest of the prestitutes.
"declined to include the personal lives of people around the world" Yeah, a bit like the BBC declining to divulge Saville personal 'life-style' for example, uh!?

Correa: Sweden can talk to Assange in London

Published: 27 Oct 12 08:12 CET | Double click on a word to get a translation
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Sweden can send a prosecutor to the Ecuadoran embassy in Britain to interrogate WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, the South American country's president said Friday.

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"This problem has a simple solution ... We propose that a Swedish prosecutor come to interrogate him at Ecuador's embassy in London," Rafael Correa said in an interview with Chilean radio station Cooperativa.

"It's perfectly legal," he added.

Correa, on a visit to Chile, added that precedents for such a move exist, noting that "this happened on other occasions."

Assange sought asylum at the Ecuadoran embassy in the British capital in mid June in a bid to avoid extradition to Sweden, where he faces questioning over alleged rape and sexual assault.

Quito gave the 41-year-old Australian asylum in August but Britain has refused to grant him safe passage out of the country, and he remains holed up in the embassy, placing Ecuador in a diplomatic stalemate with Britain.

Assange denies the allegations against him, and claims he could eventually be extradited by Sweden to the United States for prosecution over the WikiLeaks website's publication of hundreds of thousands of classified US documents.

If Stockholm does not want to send a prosecutor to London, it should provide Assange with a guarantee that he will not be extradited to a third country, Correa said in the same interview.

On Wednesday, Ecuadoran Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino told reporters that he had requested a meeting with Britain to discuss Assange's worsening health, who Quito claims is losing weight and suffering vision problems.

Assange said in an interview published September 30th that his health was "slowly deteriorating" in the embassy, adding that he had "a racking cough."

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Growing reports of a CIA campaign to destabilize Ecuador

By Matías Rojas | 11/02/2012 - 17:03 | Rating: 0

According to electronic portal Panoramas News, the alleged drug ring by former inspector of the PDI, Fernando Ulloa, corresponds to a foreign intelligence operation that seeks to finance a campaign of destabilization in Ecuador.

According to the article published on 27 October, the monthly hospital about 300 kilos of cocaine to Chile, where the controls are involved in the cover-up of police and Interior Ministry, corresponds to "a high-level operation and directed stations monitored from the CIA and the DEA of the U.S. Embassy, ​​to fund covert operations are not supervised or controlled by the U.S. Congress. "

The media quoted an official source from the National Intelligence Agency (ANI), claiming that the move follows denounced the "Iran-Contra pattern" *. The background of the case had already been made available to the Ecuadorian diplomatic authorities in Chile, shortly after concluding Rafael Correa's visit to our country.

The new complaint Panoramas News joins the issued last week by former British diplomat Craig Murray.

On 22 October, the former British ambassador to Uzbekistan, Craig Murray, said that the CIA had tripled its budget to influence the upcoming elections in Ecuador in February 2013, a figure close to $ 38 million dollars, most funds Pentagon, the product of the unexpected defeat of Henrique Capriles in Venezuela.

As published in the blog of Murray, the funds will be used to finance the opposition and bribe media and government officials, in order to initiate a destabilization campaign to achieve removal of President Rafael Correa.

The U.S. ambassador in Quito, Adam Namm, categorically denied eventual CIA plan to interfere in the Andean country's democracy, saying that "many people say many things on the internet".

Just returned from Chile, President Correa said Murray allegations and accused the CIA of funding opposition NGOs through the National Endowment for Democracy (NED). "There is movement, even Indians, funded by the extreme right in the United States," said the president in Ecuador program Citizen Link TV.
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Correa asked to investigate whether the PDI drug corresponds to a CIA operation in Chile

By Matías Rojas | 11/03/2012 - 17:16 | Rating: 0

The president of Ecuador, Rafael Correa said on Saturday that "sounds very credible" that the CIA is planning a campaign to finance the opposition in the next election Ecuador 2013. According to one of the complaints raised by Correa, the Agency would be dealing drugs in Chile in order to raise funds for covert operations.

The Ecuadorian president said on state television that his country already two complaints from abroad about a possible CIA operation to destabilize his government.

Rafael Correa exposes CIA allegations made Craig Murray (UK) and Patrick Mery (Chile)


It's in spanish, maybe it will be translated later



One of the complaints come from former British ambassador Craig Murray, who said the United States has tripled its budget to participate in the next presidential elections in Ecuador. The other said Correa, Chilean middle comes Panoramas News, a few days ago exposed the links of a drug trafficking network protected by the police commanders and Minister Hinzpeter, a CIA covert operation to fund a "coup soft "against Ecuadorian democracy.

The drug ring of PDI was initially exposed by former inspector Fernando Ulloa in August this year. In May 2011, Ulloa met in La Moneda with Interior Minister Rodrigo Hinzpeter, to inform the government about the internment of about 300 kg. cocaine, escorted by officials of Investigation, police and "soldiers", through the passage of choline to the capital.

During the conversation with Secretary of State, which was accompanied by Deputy Attorney Monica Zalaquett and Aldo Duque, former inspector reported the threats and pressures that received the High Command of the PDI to prevent the proceedings be conducted to capture those involved. After hearing this, the minister promised Hinzpeter Ulloa would have their problem solved in four days.

More than a year after the meeting concluded at La Moneda, the Chilean authorities have made no progress in the investigation.

Allegations of journalist Patrick Mery, director of Panoramas News, were underlined by Rafael Correa as worth investigating. The president also made mention of the Iran-Contra lived in Nicaragua, where the CIA used funds from the sale of arms and drug trafficking to seek to overthrow the Sandinista government.

"Not the first time you use these tactics," Correa said, stressing that his government will insist on the issue through their media.

The National Intelligence Secretariat Ecuador (SENAIN) have already been instructed to investigate whether the drug concealed by Hinzpeter corresponds to a "high-level operation directed and monitored from the stations of the CIA and the DEA of the U.S. Embassy" in Chile, as revealed by a source at the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) to Panoramas News.
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Wednesday, November 7, 2012
11/7/12
WikiLeaks has been financially blockaded without process for 705 days.
Julian Assange has been detained without charge for 702 days.
- 142 days at the Ecuadorian Embassy.
Bradley Manning has been in jail without trial for 899 days.
Jeremy Hammond has been in prison without trial for 249 days.
A secret Grand Jury on WikiLeaks has been active for 785 days.

WikiLeaks News:

WikiLeaks put out a statement commenting on President Obama's reelection, saying "four more years in the same direction cannot be tolerated".
Julian Assange spoke separately on the matter in an interview with AFP, commenting how all U.S. activities against WikiLeaks happened under the Obama Administration, and that President Obama is a "wolf in sheep's clothing".
During a recent hearing in the WikiLeaks-Twitter case, U.S. District Judge Liam O’Grady confirmed that there was an ongoing criminal investigation (grand jury) into WikiLeaks. This was previously confirmed in July by a U.S. State Department spokesperson.
WikiLeaks cables give insight into Chinese politician Li Keqiang, who is expected to succeed as the Premier of China.


Julian Assange News:

Julian Assange commented on his asylum situation saying there has been "no formal progress" in recent weeks, but WikiLeaks' strategy is "moving from defence to offence". He also commented on UK Prime Minister David Cameron's support to give Syrian President Bashar al-Assad safe passage out of Syria saying, "There does seem to be some hypocrisy in that".


Bradley Manning News:

Bradley Manning was back in court for a pretrial hearing regarding his lack of speedy trial. Here are the major developments, via Kevin Gosztola's live-blog at Firedoglake:
PFC Manning has indicated that he would accept responsibility for transferring all charged information to WikiLeaks as part of a plea notice. In this matter, he could plead guilty, without accepting some of the harsher charges such as "aiding the enemy". It is up to the judge to decide whether or not to accept this plea notice.
Lt. Col. Paul Almanza testified regarding exclusion of delay time around Christmas and New Years.
RT web producer Andrew Blake discussed Bradley Manning's plea notice and the implications it carries for his trial.


Jeremy Hammond News:

During Hurricane Sandy, Jeremy Hammond was held in solitary confinement for five days without running water or heat. Free Hammond reports he was apprehended for "looking at guards" while they stormed a common area.
Jeremy Hammond's bail hearing will be November 19 at 10AM.

Now that Obama got re-elected things won't go very good for Julian Assange.
Although the same would have happened with the other candidate.

Probably the only way is to have someone else, to take charge of Wikileaks,
but Assange doesn't seem to agree with that.
I can understand why he doesn't trust anyone.

rt.com/usa/news/wikileaks-appelbaum-investigation-manning-277/

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Key WikiLeaks supporter bashes Assange and triggers a rift among whistleblowers

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Army admits to investigating Bradley Manning supporters

The US Army has confirmed that they are investigating the Bradley Manning Support Network, an international activism group that advocates on behalf of the imprisoned accused whistleblower.
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Manning judge orders prosecutors to explain alleged evidence cover-up

In response to calls from the defense, a military judge has ordered US Army prosecutors to detail their effort to obtain and share evidence they collected in the case of Bradley Manning, the man suspected of leaking classified files to WikiLeaks.
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FBI tracked Assange with the help of LulzSec hackers?

Aside from a few unsealed court documents, details about the now-defunct hacktivism group LulzSec remains few and far between. One journalist is saying she got inside the organization though — along with Julian Assange.
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Ron Paul says he'd protect Bradley Manning and other whistleblowers

As Bradley Manning awaits his next appearance in court, the pool of presidential candidates have been slow to comment on the prosecution against the US Army private accused of providing government secrets to WikiLeaks. Except for Ron Paul, that is.
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. (AFP Photo / Warren Allott)

The United States has yet to charge WikiLeaks or its founder Julian Assange with any crimes, but a judge this week admitted that a 2-year-old investigation is nonetheless still being pursued by federal prosecutors.

US District Judge Liam O’Grady denied a plea on Wednesday to unseal court documents pertaining to an elusive grand jury investigation targeting WikiLeaks started in 2010. Rejecting a request to make certain materials available outside of the closed-door inquisition, the judge acknowledged that publishing those files would put in jeopardy the country’s still pending and highly-secretive probe into the whistleblower site.

“For reasons stated in the memorandum of the United States, unsealing of the documents at this time would damage an ongoing criminal investigation,” O’Grady ruled in a decision according to court papers first obtained by Wired (.PDF).

The judge’s response this week is in regards to the latest request to release materials believed to discuss persons loosely affiliated with WikiLeaks, a website shunned by the Obama administration and largely expected to be indicted sooner or later for publishing hundreds of thousands of US diplomatic cables and other sensitive files online.

In December 2010, the US Justice Department subpoenaed the social media site Twitter with papers demanding information on four registered accounts, including the official @WikiLeaks page and three managed by particular individuals, namely activist Jacob Appelbaum; Icelandic lawmaker Birgitta Jonsdottir; and Dutch businessman Rop Gonggrijp. Initially, those persons unsuccessfully attempted to keep Twitter from providing the government with the requested information, including associated phone numbers, email addresses, bank account numbers and IP addresses. Now nearly two years later, they have been denied access to those still-sealed files yet again.

Per the judge’s order, the requested documents involving those four Twitter accounts will remain under seal for another 180 days, at which point the federal government will have to provide just caused for keeping those documents locked up.

In October 2011, the Justice Department under US President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder also demanded that Google provide information from Appelbaum’s personal Gmail account. A noted computer researcher, Appelbaum presented an address on behalf of Assange regarding the role of WikiLeaks during the 2010 HOPE (Hackers On Planet Earth) conference in New York and, recently, has co-authored with him a book about cypherpunk culture. Following the re-election of Pres. Obama on Tuesday, Mr. Appelbaum wrote from his Twitter account, “I admit, I'm glad that Obama won; I just hope that now he will stop prosecuting #manning and will stop harassing #wikileaks supporters.”

As Judge O’Grady denied Appelbaum’s attorney’s request on Wednesday from an Alexandria, Virginia courthouse, the counsel for accused WikiLeaks source Pfc Bradley Manning submitted a plea notice on behalf of the alleged whistleblower only 40 miles up the road in Ft. Meade, Maryland. Manning, a 24-year-old private first class with the US Army, is being prosecuted by the military for allegedly providing Assange with those diplomatic cables and other materials he would have had access to while serving as an intelligence analysis overseas. With a military trial for Pfc Manning slated for early next year, his attorney David Coombs told a judge on Wednesday that the soldier is willing to accept responsibility for releasing materials to WikiLeaks.

“PFC Manning has offered to plead guilty to various offenses through a process known as ‘pleading by exceptions and substitutions,’” Coombs explains. “To clarify, PFC Manning is not pleading guilty to the specifications as charged by the Government. Rather, PFC Manning is attempting to accept responsibility for offenses that are encapsulated within, or are a subset of, the charged offenses. The Court will consider whether this is a permissible plea.”

Among the other items Manning is thought to have leaked is now infamous video footage from a US helicopter that shows American troops gunning down journalists and civilians in Iraq. Jonsdottir and Gonggrijp helped WikiLeaks prepare the release of that video, Wired notes, and chat logs provided to the outlet in 2010 by hacker Adrian Lamo include Manning’s alleged confession.

"I was the source of the 12 July 07 video from the Apache Weapons Team which killed the two journalists and injured two kids,” Manning is believed to have told Lamo during an online chat in May 2010. Other evidence presented during Manning’s pretrial motion hearing suggested that the soldier was aware of the significance of the footage.

"This is possibly one of the more significant documents of our time, removing the fog of war and revealing the true nature of 21st century asymmetric warfare. Have a good day,” they believe Manning wrote.

In regards to Pres. Obama’s re-election, Assange himself fired at the commander-in-chief with a statement this week, crediting the so-called “Collateral Murder” helicopter video with ending, in part, America’s last war in Iraq.

“It was WikiLeaks’ revelations – not the actions of President Obama – that forced the US administration out of the Iraq War,” Assange wrote. “By exposing the killing of Iraqi children, WikiLeaks directly motivated the Iraqi government to strip the US military of legal immunity, which in turn forced the US withdrawal.”

“Obama promised a more open government. But instead his administration has built a state within a state, placing nearly five million Americans under the national security clearance system, replete with secret laws, secret budgets, secret bailouts, secret killings, secret mass spying, and secret detention without charge,” said Assange. “Four more years in the same direction cannot be tolerated.”

Assange remains stuck inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London, awaiting safe passage to the South American country much to the chagrin of international authorities. London officials want to extradite Assange to Sweden to face questioning over alleged sex crimes, but the WikiLeaks face and Ecuador Pres. Rafael Correa say that maneuver will only make it easier to send Assange to America for prosecution, conviction and perhaps death.

Speaking from the embassy in August, Assange said, "If Bradley Manning did as he is accused, he is a hero and invaluable to all of us. Bradley Manning must be released." This week, Pfc Manning will celebrate Day 900 under military custody, where both defense attorneys and the United Nations say he has been subjected to conditions considered torturous under international law.

USA is doing everything to silence Julian Assnge, and get him out of the way.


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Former diplomat Craig Murray Chilean challenge: Clinton used drug funds against Ecuador

For Truth Now | 11/09/2012 - 14:05 | Rating: 0

Former UK ambassador to Uzbekistan, Craig Murray, said on Thursday the complaint of Chilean journalist Patricio Mery, saying on his blog that "Hillary Clinton is repeating the plan methodology Iran / Contra" to prevent the reelection of President Rafael Correa .

"We now have evidence from Chile completely independent of this CIA operation there, (from) of journalists investigating a trafficking operation involving 300 kilos of cocaine monthly, organized by the Army and Chilean security services," Murray wrote in his personal blog.

The Panoramas English News quoted sources who revealed that the drug reported by former inspector of the PDI, Fernando Ulloa, corresponds to a clandestine operation coordinated by the CIA and the DEA in Chile. The drug trade surplus, said an informant of the National Intelligence Agency (ANI), would be for CIA covert operations in the world, one of them being the destabilization of Ecuador in view of the upcoming presidential elections in 2013.

Murray also mentioned the strange incident during the visit of President Rafael Correa to Chile, in late October, when the journalist Patrick Mery was indicted for alleged domestic violence. After the fact, the cell phone memory Mery, containing sensitive information on drug complaint, ended up with police.

In a previous publication, Murray had referred to this incident as the CIA Honeytrap, ie an intelligence operation of a sexual nature that aims to extract information from the victim or harm, as would have happened with Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, when he was accused of "violating" the Swedish citizen Anna Ardin, who had links with anti-Castro Cubans.

Ambassador Murray had already mentioned in his blog that the Pentagon would triple its budget through "secret funds" to destabilize the government of Ecuador, given the rampant victory of Hugo Chavez in Venezuela and Correa asylum granted by Julian Assange, which " adds urgency ". The amount was estimated at $ 87 million.

They draw this picture ,but the truth is they are the gangsters, not Assange

DIPLOMACY | UK Refugee
Garzon warned that it would be unlawful to arrest Assange if he goes to hospital
Julian Assange and Baltazar Garzon during one of their meetings.

Julian Assange and Baltazar Garzon during one of their meetings.

Ecuador has asked for a pass to the hospital if his health worsens
The judge has clarified that his medical condition is not alarming
Garzon has advanced to visit Assange in 'coming weeks'
It could be extradited to Sweden where he is suspected of sexual offenses

Efe | Quito
Updated Friday 11/16/2012 6:10 hours



Former Spanish judge Baltasar Garzon's lawyer WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has said that would be illegal if the UK successfully exploited any outflow to the hospital to arrest his client, but said that his medical condition is not "alarming".

The Australian has received an "optimal" in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where he has taken refuge since June, but still their living conditions "are not suitable, or physical or psychological to stay wide," said Garzon told reporters in Quito. The lawyer said he was in touch with him and said that the visit "in the coming weeks."

"His medical condition is not at all alarming, is typical of a person in physical conditions rather limited. The moving space is minimal," he said. Assange is awaiting the UK granted a pass to leave the embassy or any other solution to their situation.

If you leave now the British embassy officials that the guard would be arrested and extradited him to Sweden, where he is suspected of sexual offenses.

Ecuador has asked the British Government for the safe conduct expirata computer could be treated in a hospital if your health deteriorates, as indicated by its Foreign Ministry.

"In no case could exploit an outlet to hospital or doctor for a prescription, to take measures that would understand that beyond legality," said Garzon, who said police should respect their "immunity" for receiving asylum .
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The lawyer, who is this week in Ecuador in front of a group of experts evaluating judicial reform in the Andean country, criticized the British government for not taking any steps to prevent such a situation.

Garzon said that Assange is subject to a medical and asserted that "while not disturbing the situation, does not mean that at any time you begin to be."

Assange claimed to be the subject of political persecution by the disclosure by WikiLeaks of thousands of sensitive diplomatic cables to several countries, especially the United States.

The Australian, who granted asylum in Ecuador in August, maintains that if Sweden to extradite him to the United States could face the death penalty or life imprisonment for publishing confidential information.

Garzon said the Assange defense team knows there is "communication" between Ecuador and the UK on the case, but it is "little" knowledge about its content.

The lawyer said that Britain was wrong to not accept the validity of asylum because his position "does not comply with a reasonable interpretation" of international law. "Political asylum is granted and links," said Garzon.

Former Spanish judge said he understood that Britain is faced with the dilemma of meeting the Swedish request to extradite Assange and respect the "human right" to asylum, but that second should prevail, in his opinion.

Assange is worse than if he werer in a prison: former judge Garzon
November 18, 2012



QUITO. - The Spanish former judge Baltasar Garzon, attorney WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said the Australian exhacker "is worse than if were in a prison" at the Embassy of Ecuador in London, but does not regret her refuge.
"In a prison you have a chance of communication, mobility benefits even Julian Assange has not," said Garzon in Ecuador, where he leads a group of international experts who oversee judicial reform. "It's worse than a prison," he added.
Assange has held since June 1 Ecuadorian legation room with a bed, a table and a shelf, "and that his world is over," said the lawyer.
This is a small embassy, which occupies only about 200 square meters in a building in London, according to the owner, Ana Albán.
"During the working day the embassy is a public body that receives people who will do their steps and procedures there, so Julian Assange can not be there as a kind of permanent guest," said Garzon. (EFE)

NO more new has been heard of Julian Assange. It seems he has come to the end of the road. Seems
his enemies are getting their way.



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Julian Assange "Obama seems to be a good person, just here lies the problem. A sheep in wolf's clothing is better than a wolf in sheep's clothing, "Assange said, predicting further attacks on the WikiLeaks website of the U.S. Government.

"Any U.S. activity against WikiLeaks began during the Obama administration," he added.

U.S. urged Assange to release the soldier Bradley Manning accused of leaking a huge amount of secret military documents and has been held in solitary confinement in a military prison for more than two years.

"The election of Barack Obama is the day 899 of confinement of Bradley Manning," said Assange.

WikiLeaks infuriated Washington in 2010 by leaking thousands of U.S. documents on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and embarrassing diplomatic cables from U.S. embassies worldwide. Assange was arrested that same year.

The Australian journalist, who has taken refuge in the Embassy of Ecuador in London, denies charges of sexual offenses that are presented. He claims that if extradited to Sweden, could be sent to America where after a similar treatment to face Manning or even the death penalty.

Last week, WikiLeaks began publishing more than 100 files classified or restricted U.S. Defense Department, which reveal the rules and procedures of the arrests U.S. military custody