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Julian Paul Assange, n le 3 juillet 1971 Townsville en Australie[1], est un informaticien et cybermilitant australien. Il est surtout connu en tant que fondateur, rdacteur en chef et porte-parole de WikiLeaks.

Sous le coup dune extradition demande par la Sude, il vit rfugi lambassade dquateur Londres depuis juin 2012.

Julian Assange affirme tre n sur Magnetic Island (l'le Magntique)[2],[3], au large de Townsville en Australie, o il passe une grande partie de son enfance. Alors qu'il a un an, sa mre, Christine, se marie avec le directeur de thtre ambulant Brett Assange[4],[5] qui, bien que n'tant pas son pre biologique, le reconnat lgalement et lui donne son nom. Son pre biologique serait un jeune homme, rencontr Sydney, lors d'une manifestation contre la guerre au Vietnam[6].

En 1979, sa mre se remarie avec un musicien, fils prsum d'Anne Hamilton-Byrne[7], fondateur de la secte New Age Kia Lama[8],[9],[10], fonde par Anne Hamilton-Byrne. Le 12 dcembre 2010, au cours de lmission Mise au Point[11] diffuse par la Tlvision suisse romande Julian Assange voque son enfance, ainsi que les constantes prgrinations qui lont amen lui-mme, sa mre et son demi-frre devoir fuir ce quil appelle: La secte dAnne Hamilton-Byrne (Association du parc Santiniketan)[12],[11],[7].

En 1982, le couple divorce aprs la naissance du demi-frre de Julian. Les parents se disputent sa garde. Sa mre s'enfuit avec ses enfants et les cache pendant 5 ans. Cette vie d'errance conduit Julian Assange frquenter successivement 37 coles diffrentes[13],[11].

l'ge de 18 ans, Julian Assange emmnage avec sa compagne qui donne naissance leur fils, Daniel[3],[14].

En 1993, Assange participe au lancement de l'un des premiers fournisseurs de services Internet grand public en Australie, Suburbia Public Access Network. partir de 1994, Assange exerce des activits en tant que programmeur et dveloppeur de logiciels libres. En 1995, Assange crit le logiciel Strobe, un scanner de port. En 1996, il contribue lcriture de plusieurs correctifs pour le projet PostgreSQL[15]. Assange a particip la rdaction du livre Underground: Tales of Hacking, Madness and Obsession on the Electronic Frontier(en) (Dans la clandestinit: contes du piratage, de la folie et de lobsession la frontire lectronique) (1997), qui relate son histoire avec le groupe des International Subversives. Il coinvente, partir de 1997, le systme de chiffrement niable (deniable encryption) Rubberhose, un concept de cryptographie labor dans un progiciel pour GNU/Linux conu pour fournir un dni plausible contre la cryptanalyse du tuyau de caoutchouc (rubber-hose cryptanalysis). lorigine, dans lesprit de Julian Assange, ce systme devait constituer un outil au service des personnes uvrant en faveur des droits de lhomme, et qui avaient besoin de protger des donnes sensibles dans ce domaine. Parmi les autres logiciels quil a crits ou cocrits, on compte le logiciel de mise en cache NNTPCache pour Usenet et Surfraw, une interface en ligne de commande pour les moteurs de recherche Web. En 1999, Assange enregistre le nom de domaine leaks.org, mais, dit-il, ensuite, je nen ai rien fait.

Le 4 novembre 2010, dans un entretien tlvis accord la Radio tlvision suisse, il dcrit ses premiers pas d'informaticien, grce au Commodore 64 offert par sa mre[16].

Il utilise comme pseudo de hackers: "Mendax" puis "Proff". Ce dernier nom ferait allusion au roman Cryptonomicon de l'auteur de science-fiction amricain Neal Stephenson[17].

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Stockholm: Sweden's sexual assault inquiry on Julian Assange is being pinched by time, with the statute of limitations about to expire on one charge and investigators unable to access Ecuador's embassy in London to question the WikiLeaks founder.

Swedish prosecutors petitioned the Ecuadorian embassy in June to interview Assange, who has been holed up in Quito's London mission since 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden on allegations of rape and sexual assault -- charges Assange vehemently denies.

"I am very critical of Ecuador's position. It can't really be said they did what they could to allow Sweden to question Assange," said Claes Borgstrom, a lawyer for one of the two women who accuse the WikiLeaks founder of having assaulted them in 2010.

Swedish prosecutors initially insisted Assange return to Sweden for interrogation -- a condition the 44-year-old Australian rejected on fears Stockholm could deliver him to US authorities, who may try him for leaking nearly 750,000 classified military and diplomatic documents in 2010.

In response to his enduring embassy asylum, Swedish prosecutors in March agreed to Assange's compromise offer to question him inside the London mission, but have yet to see their requests to see him approved by Ecuador.

If Swedish justice authorities are not allowed to question Assange before the statute of limitations on the sexual assault charges expire on August 13 and 18, Borgstrom said he was pretty sure the case will be dropped.

"If the statute of limitations expires, and most indications are that it will, the prosecutor will close the investigation," he said.

Should that happen, however, the inquiry would continue into the accusation of rape, which carries a 10-year statute of limitations and therefore expires in 2020.

Late request

Attorneys for Assange say suspicions that Quito is using delaying tactics are unfounded.

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Today, Friday 31 July 2015, 9am CEST, WikiLeaks publishes "Target Tokyo", 35 Top Secret NSA targets in Japan including the Japanese cabinet and Japanese companies such as Mitsubishi, together with intercepts relating to US-Japan relations, trade negotiations and sensitive climate change strategy.

The list indicates that NSA spying on Japanese conglomerates, government officials, ministries and senior advisers extends back at least as far as the first administration of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, which lasted from September 2006 until September 2007. The telephone interception target list includes the switchboard for the Japanese Cabinet Office; the executive secretary to the Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga; a line described as "Government VIP Line"; numerous officials within the Japanese Central Bank, including Governor Haruhiko Kuroda; the home phone number of at least one Central Bank official; numerous numbers within the Japanese Finance Ministry; the Japanese Minister for Economy, Trade and Industry Yoichi Miyazawa; the Natural Gas Division of Mitsubishi; and the Petroleum Division of Mitsui.

Today's publication also contains NSA reports from intercepts of senior Japanese government officials. Four of the reports are classified TOP SECRET. One of the reports is marked "REL TO USA, AUS, CAN, GBR, NZL", meaning it has been formally authorised to be released to the United States' "Five Eyes" intelligence partners: Australia, Canada, Great Britain and New Zealand.

The reports demonstrate the depth of US surveillance of the Japanese government, indicating that intelligence was gathered and processed from numerous Japanese government ministries and offices. The documents demonstrate intimate knowledge of internal Japanese deliberations on such issues as: agricultural imports and trade disputes; negotiating positions in the Doha Round of the World Trade Organization; Japanese technical development plans, climate change policy, nuclear and energy policy and carbon emissions schemes; correspondence with international bodies such as the International Energy Agency (IEA); strategy planning and draft talking points memoranda concerning the management of diplomatic relations with the United States and the European Union; and the content of a confidential Prime Ministerial briefing that took place at Shinzo Abe's official residence.

Julian Assange, WikiLeaks Editor-in-Chief, said: "In these documents we see the Japanese government worrying in private about how much or how little to tell the United States, in order to prevent undermining of its climate change proposal or its diplomatic relationship. And yet we now know that the United States heard everything and read everything, and was passing around the deliberations of Japanese leadership to Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the UK. The lesson for Japan is this: do not expect a global surveillance superpower to act with honour or respect. There is only one rule: there are no rules."

WikiLeaks Investigations Editor Sarah Harrison said: "Today's publication shows us that the US government targeted sensitive Japanese industry and climate change policy. Would the effectiveness of Japan's industry and climate change proposals be different today if its communications had been protected?"

Japan has been a close historical ally of the United States since the end of World War II. During a recent Presidential visit to Japan, US President Barack Obama described the East Asian country as "one of Americas closest allies in the world". Today's publication adds to previous WikiLeaks publications showing systematic mass spying conducted by US intelligence against the US-allied governments of Brazil "Bugging Brazil", France "Espionnage lyse" and Germany "The Euro Intercepts"; "All the Chancellor's Men".

Read the full list of NSA high priority targets for Japan published today here.

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This is an updated version of John Pilgers 2014 investigation which tells the unreported story of an unrelenting campaign, in Sweden and the US, to deny Julian Assange justice and silence WikiLeaks.

The siege of Knightsbridge is both an emblem of gross injustice and a gruelling farce. For three years, a police cordon around the Ecuadorean embassy in London has served no purpose other than to flaunt the power of the state. It has cost 12 million. The quarry is an Australian charged with no crime, a refugee whose only security is the room given him by a brave South American country. His crime is to have initiated a wave of truth-telling in an era of lies, cynicism and war.

The persecution of Julian Assange is about to flare again as it enters a dangerous stage. From August 20, three quarters of the Swedish prosecutors case against Assange regarding sexual misconduct in 2010 will disappear as the statute of limitations expires. At the same time Washingtons obsession with Assange and WikiLeaks has intensified. Indeed, it is vindictive American power that offers the greatest threat as Chelsea Manning and those still held in Guantanamo can attest.

The Americans are pursuing Assange because WikiLeaks exposed their epic crimes in Afghanistan and Iraq: the wholesale killing of tens of thousands of civilians, which they covered up, and their contempt for sovereignty and international law, as demonstrated vividly in their leaked diplomatic cables. WikiLeaks continues to expose criminal activity by the US, having just published top secret US intercepts US spies reports detailing private phone calls of the presidents of France and Germany, and other senior officials, relating to internal European political and economic affairs.

None of this is illegal under the US Constiution. As a presidential candidate in 2008, Barack Obama, a professor of constitutional law, lauded whistleblowers as part of a healthy democracy [and they] must be protected from reprisal. In 2012, the campaign to re-elect President Barack Obama boasted on its website that he had prosecuted more whistleblowers in his first term than all other US presidents combined. Before Chelsea Manning had even received a trial, Obama had pronounced the whisletblower guilty. He was subsequently sentenced to 35 years in prison, having been tortured during his long pre-trial detention.

Few doubt that should the US get their hands on Assange, a similar fate awaits him. Threats of the capture and assassination of Assange became the currency of the political extremes in the US following Vice-President Joe Bidens preposterous slur that the WikiLeaks founder was a cyber-terrorist. Those doubting the degree of ruthlessness Assange can expect should remember the forcing down of the Bolivian presidents plane in 2013 wrongly believed to be carrying Edward Snowden.

According to documents released by Snowden, Assange is on a Manhunt target list. Washingtons bid to get him, say Australian diplomatic cables, is unprecedented in scale and nature. In Alexandria, Virginia, a secret grand jury has spent five years attempting to contrive a crime for which Assange can be prosecuted. This is not easy. The First Amendment to the US Constitution protects publishers, journalists and whistleblowers.

Faced with this constitutional hurdle, the US Justice Department has contrived charges of espionage, conspiracy to commit espionage, conversion (theft of government property), computer fraud and abuse (computer hacking) and general conspiracy. The Espionage Act has life in prison and death penalty provisions. .

Assanges ability to defend himself in this Kafkaesque world has been handicapped by the US declaring his case a state secret. In March, a federal court in Washington blocked the release of all information about the national security investigation against WikiLeaks, because it was active and ongoing and would harm the pending prosecution of Assange. The judge, Barbara J. Rosthstein, said it was necessary to show appropriate deference to the executive in matters of national security. This is the justice of a kangaroo court.

The supporting act in this grim farce is Sweden, played by the Swedish prosecutor Marianne Ny. Until recently, Ny refused to comply with a routine European procedure routine that required her to travel to London to question Assange and so advance the case. For four and a half years, Ny has never properly explained why she has refused to come to London, just as the Swedish authorities have never explained why they refuse to give Assange a guarantee that they will not extradite him on to the US under a secret arrangement agreed between Stockholm and Washington. In December 2010, The Independent revealed that the two governments had discussed his onward extradition to the US.

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In part two of our exclusive interview, Amy Goodman goes inside Ecuadors Embassy in London to speak with Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks. Assange has been living in the embassy for more than two years under political asylum. He faces investigations in both Sweden and the United States, where a secret grand jury is investigating WikiLeaks for its role in publishing a trove of leaked documents about the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, as well as State Department cables. Assange responds to former Secretary of State Hillary Clintons recent comments that National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden should return home to face trial. "Its the advice of all our lawyers that he should not return to the United States. Hed be extremely foolish to do so," Assange says. "Its not possible to have a fair trial, because the U.S. government has a precedent of applying state secret privilege to prevent the defense from using material that is classified in their favor."

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AMY GOODMAN: We turn now to the second part of our Democracy Now! TV/radio broadcast exclusive. We went inside the Ecuadorean Embassy in London last weekend to interview WikiLeaks founder and publisher Julian Assange. He has just entered his third year inside the embassy, where he has political asylum. Assange faces investigations in both Sweden and the United States. Here in the U.S., a secret grand jury is investigating WikiLeaks for its role in publishing a trove of leaked documents about the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, as well as State Department cables. In Sweden, hes wanted for questioning on allegations of sexual misconduct, though no charges have been filed. Lets go to that interview.

AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. Im Amy Goodman. Were in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London, where Julian Assange has actually lived for more than two years. He has political asylum in Ecuador but cant make it there because he is concerned if he steps outside to get on a plane to Ecuador, the British government will arrest him and extradite him to Sweden. And hes concerned, in Sweden, he would be extradited to the United States to face charges around his organization, WikiLeaks, which he publishes.

So, Julian, Id like you to respond to Hillary Clinton, the former secretary of state, could be running for president, her comments on Edward Snowden. She was interviewed by The Guardian, which first released the revelations based on the documents of Edward Snowden. And if you could just hit the first comment.

HILLARY CLINTON: Well, I would say, first of all, that Edward Snowden broke our laws, and that cannot be ignored or brushed aside.

AMY GOODMAN: Julian Assange, that first point of Hillary Clintons?

JULIAN ASSANGE: Well, its always interesting when someone proclaims to be a master of what is within the law and what is not within the law. Weve seen a lot with Pentagon generals and other State Department figures, including Hillary. Weve seen it in this case with General Alexander, talking about what is the law and what is not the law.

AMY GOODMAN: The former head of the NSA.

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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has lived at Ecuador's London embassy since June 2012.

Sweden's Attorney-General says he is confident Julian Assange will remain subject to an arrest warrant relating to allegations of sexual assault.

Attorney-General Anders Perklev also reaffirmed his confidence in Swedish prosecutor Marianne Ny, who for more than four-and-a-half years refused to interview the Australian WikiLeaks publisher in London, but abruptly changed her mind last month after Sweden's highest court decided to hear an appeal by Mr Assange asking that the warrant for his arrest be quashed.

In an interview with Sweden's Expressen newspaper, Mr Perklev denied that Mr Assange's high profile and "special" circumstances had any impact on the handling of his case and insisted that the matter was being dealt with "entirely under Swedish law".

Mr Assange has lived at Ecuador's London embassy since June 2012. Ecuador has granted him political asylum on the grounds that he is at risk of extradition to the United States to face espionage and conspiracy charges arising from the leaking of thousands of secret diplomatic and military documents by US Army private Chelsea Manning.

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Last month, a US court confirmed that WikiLeaks and Mr Assange are still being targeted by the US Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation in a criminal investigation relating to espionage, conspiracy, theft of US government property and computer fraud.

British police are on guard outside the Ecuadorian embassy 24 hours a day, waiting to arrest Mr Assange so he can be extradited to Sweden for questioning about the sexual assault allegations. The allegations were first raised in August 2010.

Mr Assange denies the allegations and his lawyers have advised that his extradition to Stockholm could facilitate his eventual extradition to the US.

Last month, Sweden's Supreme Court decided to hear an appeal by Mr Assange seeking to quash the arrest warrant on the grounds that prosecutors had failed to progress the case by refusing to interview him in London and that he had been denied access to key facts forming the basis for the decision to arrest him.

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WikiLeaks has rolled out a new homepage today, one that takes more than a little inspiration from a certain search engine you all know.

Visitors to the whistleblowers website were greeted with this familiar sight today, and likely succeeded in confusing many at first. However, there is an ulterior motive behind the site revamp.

Yes, it seems that WikiLeaks creator Julian Assange is looking to draw attention to a book he recently released, called When Google met WikiLeaks, in which Assange claims Google is a little too cosy with the U.S. government.

WikiLeaks actually previously published a full transcript of a secret five-hour chat between Googles Eric Schmidt and Assange that took place in 2011, which Schmidt instigated for research into a book he wrote called The New Digital Age.

At any rate, WikiLeaks is going all-in with this new design, even offering a T-shirt with the Google-fied logo on it. Its yours for a mere $21.

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JULIAN Assange may have the worlds secrets at his fingertips but theres no hiding the fact his father didnt get the original asking price on his Newtown home.

John Shipton, father of the Wikileaks founder, sold the two-bedroom property at 36 Kent St for $1.42 million, below the asking price of more than $1.5 million.

The unassuming exterior of the Newtown property. Source: Supplied

The interiors of the Kent St home which is owned Julian Assanges biological father John Shipton and his partner Catherine Barber. Picture: Supplied Source: Supplied

ASSANGES NEWTOWN HOME FAILS TO SELL AT AUCTION

Despite a large crowd and eight registered bidders at the auction two weeks ago, the 247sq m property passed in at $1.27 million.

Julian Assange's father John Shipton. Picture: Adam Knott Source: News Limited

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. Picture: Ella Pellegrini Source: News Limited

Speaking to the Daily Telegraph after the auction, Mr Stoker said Mr Shipton and his long-term partner, Catherine Barber, were very attached to the home after two decades at the address.

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The Newtown home of Julian Assange's dad John Shipton sold on Wednesday for $1.42 million.

It was a strong result for the quirky two-bedroom property, selling for well in excess of the $1.1 million-plus guide.

The two-bedroom house last traded in 1989 for $130,000 when bought by Shipton's partner Catherine Barber, and was largely rebuilt by Shipton in the 1990s.

Shipton is the founder of the WikiLeaks Party, formed as part of Julian Assange's bid for a Senate seat in the 2013 federal election.

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Assange remains holed up inside the Ecuadorean Embassy in London since June 2012 following British moves to extradite him to Sweden to face questioning over a sexual assault investigation.

Set on a corner block the original house was built in the 1870s as a servant's quarters to the historic Victorian villa Ferndale next door. it was sold by Shaun Stoker and Ercan Ersan, of Ray White Surry Hills.

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