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'''Julian Paul Assange''' ({{IPAc-en|ə|ˈ|s|ɑː|n|ʒ}} {{respell|ə|SAHNZH}};<ref>{{YouTube|i85fX9-sKYo|"The Julian Assange Show: Cypherpunks Uncut (p.1)"}}</ref> {{né}} '''Hawkins'''; born 3 July 1971) is an Australian editor, publisher, and [[Activism|activist]] who founded [[WikiLeaks]] in 2006. He came to international attention in 2010 after WikiLeaks published a series of [[News leak|leaks]] from [[Chelsea Manning]], a former [[United States Army]] intelligence analyst:<ref>{{Cite web |title=USA must drop charges against Julian Assange |url=https://www.amnesty.org/en/petition/julian-assange-usa-justice/ |access-date=21 February 2024 |website=Amnesty International |language=en}}</ref> [[July 12, 2007, Baghdad airstrike|footage of a U.S. airstrike]] in [[Baghdad]], U.S. military logs from the [[Afghan War documents leak|Afghanistan]] and [[Iraq War documents leak|Iraq]] wars, and [[United States diplomatic cables leak|U.S. diplomatic cables]]. Assange has won multiple awards for publishing and journalism.
Assange was raised in several towns in Australia until his family settled in [[Melbourne]] in his mid-teens. He became involved in the [[Hacker culture|hacker community]] and was convicted for [[Security hacker|hacking]] in 1996.<ref name="ManOfMystery2">{{cite news |last=Lagan |first=Bernard |date=10 April 2010 |title=International man of mystery |work=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]] |url=https://www.smh.com.au/technology/international-man-of-mystery-20100409-ryvf.html |access-date=17 March 2014}}</ref><ref name="TeenHacker">{{cite news |last1=Leigh |first1=David |author-link1=David Leigh (journalist) |last2=Harding |first2=Luke Daniel |author-link2=Luke Harding |date=30 January 2011 |title=Julian Assange: the teen hacker who became insurgent in information war |work=[[The Guardian]] |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2011/jan/30/julian-assange-wikileaks-profile |access-date=17 March 2014}}</ref><ref name="Christian Science Monitor">{{Cite news |title=Julian Assange: the hacker who created WikiLeaks |work=Christian Science Monitor |url=https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Military/2010/0726/Julian-Assange-the-hacker-who-created-WikiLeaks |access-date=13 February 2023 |issn=0882-7729}}</ref> Following the establishment of WikiLeaks, Assange was its editor when it published the [[Bank Julius Baer v. WikiLeaks|Bank Julius Baer documents]], footage of the [[2008 Tibetan unrest]], and a report on political killings in Kenya with ''[[The Sunday Times]]''.
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