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Julian Assange | Enemy of the state

On April 5, 2010, a 39-minute video was released by a website, called wikileaks.org, that showed gun-sight footage of two U.S. AH-64 Apache helicopters in action during the Iraqi insurgency against the U.S. occupation in 2007. Asylum in Embassy Ten years since the release of the Iraq War Logs, Mr. Assange is undergoing trial in the U.K. on whether he should be extradited to the U.S. to face charges related to the leaking of classified documents that exposed U.S. war crimes. Seven of those years were spent in asylum in the small Ecuador Embassy in London, after Mr. Assange refused extradition to Sweden to face charges of rape, which were later dismissed by Swedish prosecutors. WikiLeaks published emails sent and received by U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and went on to release Democratic National Committee emails that were obtained allegedly by Russian intelligence agency hackers. Ms. Clinton’s Republican opponent and later U.S. President Donald Trump revealed in the email controversy that the WikiLeaks’ published emails had got Ms. Clinton into as he even said during the campaign, “I love WikiLeaks”.

The Hindu

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