Julian Assange

Julian Paul Assange (born 3 July 1971, Townsville, Queensland) is an Australian publisher and journalist, best known as the editor-in-chief of the whistleblower website WikiLeaks, which he co-founded in 2006 after an earlier career in hacking and programming. WikiLeaks achieved particular prominence in 2010 when it published U.S. military and diplomatic documents leaked by Chelsea Manning. Assange has been under investigation in the United States since that time. In the same year he was accused of sexual offences in Sweden. In 2012, facing extradition to Sweden, he took refuge at the Embassy of Ecuador, London. He was granted political asylum by Ecuador and currently lives in the Embassy.

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