Julian Assange Biography

Julian Assange is an Australian computer programmer, journalist and the founder and director of WikiLeaks. Currently, he is in police custody in London, England after having been arrested on 11 April 2019 by the Metropolitan Police Service for breaching his bail conditions in December 2010.

It was immediately before his arrest, that he had been under the protection of Ecuador as an asylum seeker, and had been living in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London since 2012.

Julian Assange Age

Assange was born on the 3rd of July 1971. He is 47 years old as of 2018.

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Julian Assange (born Julian Paul Hawkins) was born in Townsville, Queensland, to Christine Ann Hawkins (b. 1951), a visual artist, and John Shipton, an anti-war activist and builder. The couple separated before their son was born.

When Assange was a year old, his mother married Richard Brett Assange, an actor, with whom she ran a small theatre company and whom Assange regards as his father. His surname Assange is a Westernization of the Chinese name Au Sang, from a Taiwanese man who married a Torres Strait Islander woman on Thursday Island. His mother owned a house in Nelly Bay on Magnetic Island, where they lived from time to time until it was destroyed by fire.

Christine and Brett Assange divorced about 1979. Christine Assange then became involved with Leif Meynell, also known as Leif Hamilton, a member of Australian cult The Family, with whom she had a son before the couple broke up in 1982. Assange had a nomadic childhood and had lived in over thirty Australian towns and cities by the time he reached his mid-teens when he settled with his mother and half-brother in Melbourne, Victoria.

He is an Austrian and Ecuadorian native.

Julian Assange Education

As a child, he attended many schools, including Goolmangar Primary School in New South Wales (1979–1983) and Townsville State High School, as well as being schooled at home. He learned programming, mathematics, and physics at Central Queensland University (1994) and the University of Melbourne (2003–2006), but did not complete a degree.

Julian Assange Wife | Julian Assange Spouse

Speaking of his love life, Assange married a woman named Teresa Doe, and in 1989. The couple separated and initially disputed custody of their child. Assange was Daniel’s primary caregiver for much of his childhood.

Julian Assange Children | Julian Assange Kids

Assange and Doe had a son, Daniel Assange, now a software designer. He also has other children; in an open letter to then-French President François Hollande, he stated that his youngest child lives in France with his mother.

Julian Assange Career

Assange supported WikiLeaks in 2006 and came to international attention in 2010 once WikiLeaks printed a series of leaks provided by Chelsea Manning (then called Bradley Manning). These leaks enclosed the Collateral Murder video (April 2010), the Asian country war logs (July 2010), the Iraq war logs (October 2010), and CableGate (November 2010). Following the 2010 leaks, the federal government of the United States launched a criminal investigation into WikiLeaks and asked allied nations for assistance.

In November 2010, Sweden issued an international arrest warrant for Assange. He had been questioned there months earlier over allegations of statutory offense and rape. Assange denied the allegations and said that he would be extradited from Sweden to the United States because of his role in publishing secret American documents. Assange relinquished to kingdom police on seven Dec 2010 however was free on bail at intervals ten days. Having been unsuccessful in his challenge to the extradition proceedings, he breached his bail in June 2012 and absconded. He was granted asylum by Ecuador|South American country|South American nation} in August 2012 and remained within the Embassy of Ecuador in London till his arrest in Apr 2019.

Assange has control Ecuadorian citizenship since twelve Dec 2017. Swedish prosecutors later suspended their investigation into the rape accusation against Assange; they applied to revoke the European arrest warrant in May 2017. The London Metropolitan Police indicated that associate degree bench warrant was operative for Assange’s failure to surrender himself to his bail.

During 2016 u. s. Democratic Party presidential primaries, WikiLeaks hosted emails sent or received by candidate Edmund Hillary Clinton from her non-public email server once she was Secretary of State. The Democratic Party, along with cybersecurity experts, claimed that Russian intelligence had hacked the emails and leaked them to WikiLeaks; Assange consistently denied any connection to or cooperation with Russia in relation to the leaks, and stated the Clinton campaign was stoking “a neo-McCarthy hysteria”.

Ecuadorian president Lenín Moreno said on 27 July 2018 that he had begun talks with British authorities to withdraw the asylum for Assange. London’s Metropolitan Police entered the Ecuadorian embassy in London at the invitation of the Ecuadorian ambassador and arrested Assange on 11 April 2019.

Julian Assange Movies | Julian Assange Filmography

As himself

• The War You Don’t See (2010)
• The Simpsons (2012) (cameo; episode “At Long Last Leave”)
• Citizenfour (2014)
• The Yes Men Are Revolting (2014)
• Terminal F/Chasing Edward Snowden (2015)
• Asylum (2016)
• Risk (2016)
• Architects of Denial (2017)
• The New Radical (2017)

Julian Assange Awards

• 2008, The Economist New Media Award
• 2009, Amnesty International UK Media Awards
• 2010, TIME Person of the Year, Reader’s Choice
• 2010, Sam Adams Award
• 2010, Le Monde Readers’ Choice Award for Person of the Year
• 2011, Free Dacia Award
• 2011, Sydney Peace Foundation Gold Medal
• 2011, Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism
• 2011, Voltaire Award for Free Speech
• 2012, Big Brother Awards Hero of Privacy
• 2013, Global Exchange Human Rights Award, People’s Choice
• 2013, Yoko Ono Lennon Courage Award for the Arts
• 2013, New York Festivals World’s Best TV & Films Silver World Medal
• 2014, Union of Journalists in Kazakhstan Top Prize
• 2019, Nobel laureate Mairead Maguire nominated Julian Assange for the Nobel Peace Prize. This followed a 2011 nomination for the WikiLeaks website by Snorre Valen.

Julian Assange Net Worth

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Julian Assange Quotes

• Journalism should be more like science. As far as possible, facts should be verifiable. If journalists want long-term credibility for their profession, they have to go in that direction. Have more respect for readers.
• The Iraq War was the biggest issue for people of my generation in the West. It was also the clearest case, in my living memory, of media manipulation and the creation of a war through ignorance.
• It is the role of good journalism to take on powerful abusers, and when powerful abusers are taken on, there’s always a bad reaction. So we see that controversy, and we believe that is a good thing to engage in.
• We have to be careful about applying criminal labels to people until we’re very sure.
• Whistleblowers often take very significant efforts to bring us material and often at very significant risks.
• I mean there are enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world – within the E.U., between China and the United States. Which way is it going to go? It’s hard to see.
• The greater the power, the more need there is for transparency because if the power is abused, the result can be so enormous. On the other hand, those people who do not have power, we mustn’t reduce their power even more by making them yet more transparent.

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