Julian assange arrested october 2016

Australian editor and founder of WikiLeaks (born 1971)

Julian Paul Assange (ə-SAHNZH;^[3]néHawkins; born 3 July 1971) is an Australian editor, publisher, and activist who founded WikiLeaks in 2006.

He came to international attention in 2010 after WikiLeaks published a series of leaks from Chelsea Manning, a United States Army intelligence analyst:^[4]footage of a U.S. airstrike in Baghdad, U.S. military logs from the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, and U.S.

diplomatic cables. Assange has won multiple awards for publishing and journalism.

Assange was raised in various places around Australia until his family settled in Melbourne in his middle teens. He became involved in the hacker community and was convicted for hacking in 1996.^[5][6][7] Following the establishment of WikiLeaks, Assange was its editor when it published the Bank Julius Baer documents, footage of the 2008 Tibetan unrest, and a report on political ki