Assange and Wikileaks: “Donald? It’s a Change Anyway”
NOVANEWS
By Julian Assange and Stefania Maurizi
Repubblica
When they appeared on the scene for the first time in 2006, few noticed them. And when four years later they hit worldwide media headlines with their publication of over 700,000 secret US government documents, many assumed that Julian Assange and his organisation, WikiLeaks, would be annihilated very shortly.
Since 2010 Assange has lived first under house arrest and then confined to the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where he has been granted asylum by Ecuador. The country’s officials judged his concerns of being extradited to Sweden and then to the US to be put on trial for the WikiLeaks’ revelations well-grounded.
Repubblica met Julian Assange in the embassy, nicely decorated for the Christmas season.
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