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Assange now under Bail, may be freed tomorrow

The founder of whistle-blowing website Wikileaks, Julian Assange, has been granted conditional bail by a judge. The 39-year-old was granted bail in London earlier this week but remained in jail after prosecutors objected. The Australian is fighting extradition to Sweden over sex charges involving two women. He denies the allegations. Mr Justice Ouseley granted conditional bail at the Royal Courts of Justice and supporters put up £240,000 in sureties. His release is expected on Thursday. However, the BBC understands he may not be freed until Friday because those who provided the finances must complete paperwork at a police station. Mr Assange's solicitor, Mark Stephens, said afterwards the bail appeal was part of a "continuing vendetta by the Swedes". He said: "We have won costs today but they should be paid by Sweden not the hard-pressed Crown Prosecution Service (CPS)." There has been dispute over who was motivated to appeal against Mr Assange's rel

First Cyber World War begins to save Wikileaks

Thousands of hackers have stepped up their first ever Cyber World War to draw support for WikiLeaks and to stop repression on Julian Paul Assange , the founder of the Wikileaks on Thursday(December 9, 2010). The Swedish government's website was forced offline after a group calling itself " Anonymous " vowed to intensify its " war of data " against Mastercard, Visa and other groups which have blocked funding to WikiLeaks. Organisers of the group said thousands of volunteers had joined the defence of WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange, who is in jail in London on an extradition request from Sweden over sex crimes allegations. "This is a war of data, we are trying to keep the Internet open and free for everyone, just the way the Internet has been and always was," said a spokesman for Anonymous, a man with a British accent calling himself " Coldblood ". Anonymous is a loose-knit group of hacktivists politically motivated hackers. It

Assange's bank account frozen in Switzerland

The Swiss post office bank, PostFinance, has frozen the accounts of Wikileaks founder Julian Paul Assange. The whistle-blowing website says the freeze includes a defence fund and personal assets worth 31,000 euros. Wikileaks has published hundreds of secret US diplomatic cables, angering the US government and triggering moves by several companies including PayPal and Amazon to end their services. Meanwhile, a warrant for Mr Assange's arrest has reached the UK authorities. Sources have told the BBC that the European Arrest Warrant for Mr Assange arrived on Monday afternoon. Swedish prosecutors want to question Mr Assange in connection with allegations of rape, which he denies. He is believed to be in hiding somewhere in south-east England. Once the police have located him, he would be expected to appear at a magistrate's court within 24 hours, pending extradition to Sweden, says the BBC's security correspondent Frank Gardner. The move by Switzerland's PostFinance

Julian Paul Assange: the publisher of untold truth

The most courageous and brave publisher of the world JulianPaul Assange was born in July 3, 1971. He is an Austr alian publisher and internet activist. He is best known as the spokesperson and editor-in-chief for WikiLeaks, a whistle-blower website.  Before working with the website, Mr. Assange was a physics and mathematics student as well as a computer programmer. He has lived in several countries and has told reporters he is constantly on the move.  He makes irregular public appearances to speak about freedom of the press, censorship, and investigative reporting; he has also won several journalism awards for his work with WikiLeaks. Assange founded the ever strongest publisher WikiLeaks website in 2006 and serves on its advisory board. In this capacity, he has received widespread public attention for his role in releasing classified material documenting the involvement of the United States in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. On 28 November 2010, WikiLeaks and its five media pa

WikiLeaks to publish truth of Corporate World soon

The most courageous and brave website of the time WikiLeaks, which has awakened the human mind newly on its own style publishing the unknown   truth of power makers specially about America and its allies this time.   WikiLeaks, which is causing an international eruption over its release of confidential diplomatic messages, said it would also publish disclosures from the corporate world. "I believe that in the future we are going to have more material that is pertaining to the corporate community," WikiLeaks spokesman Kristinn Hrafnsson said late Wednesday. Shares in Bank of America fell 3 percent Tuesday amid investor fears that the largest U.S. bank by assets might be at the center of WikiLeaks' next document release. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said his group planned to release tens of thousands of internal documents from a major U.S. bank early next year, according to an interview published Monday by Forbes Magazine. Hrafnsson, speaking at an event in London, c