The Information and Broadcasting Ministry sent the popular online source of information notice at a a time when it is embroiled in legal cases in India over alleged inaccurate and defamatory content provided by it.
Assange pled guilty at a hearing in the US Pacific island of Saipan to conspiring to disclose US national defence documents, but said the Constitution's First Amendment protected his activities. His admission of guilt was part of a deal that saw him return to Australia after over a decade.
WikiLeaks in 2010 released hundreds of thousands of classified US military documents on Washington's wars in Afghanistan and Iraq - the largest security breaches of their kind in US military history - along with swaths of diplomatic cables.
Julian Assange appeared in a US federal court in the Mariana Islands, where he pleaded guilty to unlawfully obtaining classified national defense information. The US Justice Department confirmed his plea in a court-filed letter. As a result, Assange was granted release from prison.
UK government approves extradition of WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange to US on spying charges
The decision now rests with Interior Minister Priti Patel. Julian Assange's lawyers may still appeal to the High Court if she approves the extradition.
A British judge on Monday rejected the United States’ request to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to face espionage charges, saying he was likely to kill himself if held under harsh U.S. prison conditions.
He was previously charged last month on one count of conspiring with ex-intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning to gain access to the Pentagon network.
Assange, infamous across the globe for publishing state secrets that embarrassed governments had been under the protection of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London for almost seven years.
During a meeting with then US ambassador, Rahul Gandhi had said saffron terror was a bigger threat than the Lashkar-e-Taiba, claimed the BJP quoting a telegram sourced from Wikileaks.
Ecuador gave Assange political asylum after he sought refuge in the embassy in 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden for investigation of sex-related claims.
Assange, an Australian, became an Ecuadoran citizen on December 12.
President Donald Trump’s oldest son communicated with the Twitter account behind WikiLeaks, exchanging direct messages during the 2016 election campaign.
WikiLeaks has claimed that America’s intelligence agency CIA is using technology provider Cross Match Technologies to ‘secretly’ extract biometric information
Assange, who appeared on the balcony of his Ecuadorean embassy hideout in London this evening, said he will not "forgive" those who "slandered" him.
In a statement issued here, the Swedish Prosecution Authority said that Marianne Ny ‘has discontinue the investigation’ against the Australian computer programmer.
The US National Security Agency (NSA) has been spying on Pakistan's mobile networks, WikiLeaks has said.
WikiLeaks’ most recent revelation of CIA cyber-tools uncovers a strategy utilized by the agency to conceal its digital tracks, conceivably ruining the disguise on hacking operations aimed at gathering intelligence on foreign targets, the media
In what is possibly the largest ever leak of CIA documents in history, anti-secrecy organisation WikiLeaks on Tuesday released thousands of documents describing sophisticated software tools and techniques used by the agency to break into
WikiLeaks, the international organisation that publishes secret information, has released a seven-page document allegedly revealing that the US Central Intelligence Agency ordered its spies to gather information on the 2012 French presidential electi
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