{"id":117396,"date":"2024-03-27T06:27:58","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T11:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/?p=117396"},"modified":"2024-03-27T06:27:58","modified_gmt":"2024-03-27T11:27:58","slug":"julian-assange-who-is-he-and-what-secrets-did-wikileaks-reveal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/2024\/03\/27\/julian-assange-who-is-he-and-what-secrets-did-wikileaks-reveal\/","title":{"rendered":"Julian Assange: Who is he and what secrets did Wikileaks reveal?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"BBC \u2014 <\/b>Julian Assange, founder of the whistleblowing website Wikileaks, will have to wait until 20 May to find out whether he will be extradited to the US.<\/b><\/h1>\n<\/section>\n
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The UK courts had agreed to send Mr Assange to the US to be tried for disclosing military secrets, but he asked the High Court for permission to appeal against that decision.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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Who is Julian Assange and what is Wikileaks?<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n
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Mr Assange gained a reputation for computer programming as a teenager.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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In 1995, he was fined for hacking offences in a court in his native country, Australia, and only avoided a prison sentence because he promised not to do it again.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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In 2006, Mr Assange founded the Wikileaks website. It claims to have published\u00a0more than ten million documents<\/a>, including many confidential or restricted official reports related to war, spying and corruption.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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In 2010, it released a video from a US military helicopter which showed civilians being killed in the Iraqi capital Baghdad.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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Helicopter footage was posted on Wikileaks<\/span><\/section>\n
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It also published thousands of confidential documents supplied by\u00a0former US Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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These suggested that the US military had killed hundreds of civilians in unreported incidents during the war in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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