The Latest Breaking News from Julian Assange

The WikiLeaks founder is free after years-long legal battle that has stirred debate around the world on press freedom.

Stella Assange says she is ‘elated - frankly it’s just incredible, it feels like it’s not real’

Julian Assange, who is expected to return home to Australia a free man this week after years of fighting against extradition to the US on spying charges, is for some a fearless campaigner for press freedom. But for others, the 52-year-old Australian was reckless with classified information, possibly endangering human…

Watch view of Don Mueang International Airport, Bangkok, on Tuesday 25 June, where a plane believed to be carrying Julian Assange has landed.

The Julian Assange affair stands at the awkward intersection of a country’s right to keep secret national security information and the public’s right to know what is being done by a supposedly accountable government.

Stella Assange told the couple’s chidren there was a ‘big surprise’ as they boarded a plane to Australia

Australian MP says ‘enough is enough’, raising concerns over Assange’s ‘fragile’ health

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A plane believed to be carrying WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has landed in Thailand