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    Assange saga

    July

    Jimmy Lai.

    Why Britain’s new PM could hold the key to Jimmy Lai’s freedom

    Keir Starmer cut his teeth as a barrister at the same firm as Australian human rights lawyer Jennifer Robinson, who is fighting for the release of Hong Kong mogul Jimmy Lai.

    • Gus McCubbing and Hannah Wootton

    June

    Li Qiang and Anthony Albanese

    Don’t trade free speech for iron ore, jailed HK mogul’s son warns

    Sebastien Lai wants the Albanese government to pressure China to release his pro-democracy father Jimmy Lai.

    • Andrew Tillett
    WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange arrives in Canberra on Wednesday.

    The secret breakthroughs that freed Assange

    Legal proceedings against the notorious whistleblower ended after a long and delicate fight in the highest offices on three continents.

    • Andrew Tillett
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    Assange row erupts; Law firms boom; Meet Australia’s priciest lawyer

    Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.

    WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange arrived in Canberra at 7.37pm on Wednesday.

    Political row erupts over ‘hero’s welcome’ for Assange

    The opposition says it is inappropriate for Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to have spoken to Julian Assange after Assange’s arrival in Canberra on Wednesday.

    • Andrew Tillett
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    ‘You saved my life’: Assange thanks PM, lands in Australia

    Julian Assange has personally thanked Prime Minister Anthony Albanese for championing his freedom after he touched down in Canberra on Wednesday.

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    • Andrew Tillett
    Julian Assange leaves court a free man.

    Assange ‘won’t be silenced’ after guilty plea deal

    Julian Assange is officially a free man, with the WikiLeaks founder now a convicted felon after pleading guilty in a remote US Pacific island courthouse.

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    • Andrew Tillett
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    Inflation spikes to 4pc; RBA’s housing warning; Star’s new CEO

    Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.

    Julian Assange on board the plane that took him from Britain to Bangkok.

    Julian Assange to seek pardon after 15-year legal battle comes to close

    The WikiLeaks founder will plead guilty to a single count of illegally disseminating US national security material and could return to Australia within days.

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    • Andrew Tillett
    Freed: Julian Assange.

    Citizen Assange’s hero claim is forever tainted

    WikiLeaks mainly benefited Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Russian intelligence. That leaves Julian Assange’s claim to be a hero of press freedom forever tainted.

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    FILE - Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks speaks to the media and members of the public from a balcony at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, Thursday, Dec. 20, 2012. A British appellate court has opened the door for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to be extradited to the United States. The High Court overturned a lower court ruling that found Assange's mental health was too fragile to withstand the American criminal justice system. A lower court judge earlier this year refused an American requ

    Julian Assange never accepted the ethics of journalism

    Drawing support from the far left and right, the Wikileaks founder was more international political actor than reporter.

    • Aaron Patrick
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    A timeline of Julian Assange’s legal saga

    A deal has brought an abrupt end to an extraordinary legal saga that has raised novel issues of national security, press freedoms, politics and diplomacy.

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    • Charlie Savage

    Assange plea deal has echoes of David Hicks

    Julian Assange’s release is not the first time a US president has done such a favour for an Australian prime minister.

    • Phillip Coorey

    May

    Julian Assange’s supporters outside court.

    Assange wins right to appeal extradition to US

    It could be many months until the appeal is heard, and then that decision could be taken to the UK Supreme Court.

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    • Michael Holden and Sam Tobin
    A demonstrator holds a placard calling for the release of Julian Assange outside the Royal Courts of Justice in London in March.

    High Court might rule on Assange extradition

    Two judges at the High Court in London are set to rule on whether the court is satisfied by US assurances that Julian Assange, 52, would not face the death penalty.

    • Michael Holden and Sam Tobin
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    March

    Stella Assange, the wife of Julian Assange, with Assange’s brother, Gabriel Shipton, outside the Royal Courts of Justice in London last month.

    ‘His health is very risky’: Assange’s brother fears for his life

    After returning from London and Washington, where he fought for US political support, the brother of Julian Assange warned the health of the imprisoned Wikileaks founder is declining.

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    • Tom Richardson
    Supports gather outside the High Court in London.

    Assange wins temporary reprieve from extradition to US

    London’s High Court said the US must provide further assurances by April 16 that Julian Assange would not face the death penalty.

    • Michael Holden and Sam Tobin

    February

    Protesters throng outside Julian Assange’s appeal hearing in central London.

    Assange too sick to attend last-ditch bid to halt US extradition

    The imprisoned Australian founder of Wikileaks did not attend a high-stakes court hearing in London. But his supporters turned out in force.

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    • Hans van Leeuwen
    Stella Assange, wife of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, at a press conference in London on Thursday.

    PM’s support for Assange wins praise from jailed Aussie’s wife

    Ahead of a make-or-break court hearing next week, Stella Assange says she hopes Australia’s political track record will sway her husband’s American pursuers.

    • Hans van Leeuwen

    November 2023

    New Origin offer; PwC’s political gift; Microsoft’s great escape

    Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.