Julian Paul Assange was born in Australia on July 3, 1971, founder of WikiLeaks, known as "Hacker Robin Hood"
On April 20, the District Court of Westminster in London issued an extradition order for extradition of Assange to the United States, where he would face 175 years in prison.
At the age of 8, his parents divorced. At the age of 14, he had moved 37 times. Not fully educated. He became a cyber hacker by self-taught at the age of 16. In 1991, he hacked into the main terminal of the Canadian telecommunications company Northern Telegraph in Melbourne. A system named "NMELH1" was discovered. He designed his own program to log in and out of the system at will, so that the entire Melbourne communication was in his hands MEL represented Melbourne
In the winter of 1991, Assange was arrested on 31 counts of hacking-related crimes, and Australian police spent three years gathering evidence. In May 1995, the judge announced that because "international subversion" did not improperly profit from hacking, but acted for fun, Assange was not sentenced, and was only sentenced to 71 million yuan in damages. And then immerse.
In 2006, Assange resumed work. Set up a space-based website for an Internet service provider called PRQse. "WikiLeaks". It is a borderless, non-profit Internet media that helps informed people to let organizations, businesses, and governments operate under the sun. The website states that the site was "founded by political dissidents, journalists, mathematicians and company technicians from the United States, Taiwan, Europe, Australia and South Africa."
In December 2006, WikiLeaks published its first document pointing out that Somali opposition leader Avis intended a coup d'état and was preparing to overthrow the Somali government by assassination. WikiLeaks shocked the world with its first shot. The authenticity of the document was never confirmed, and news on the WikiLeaks website quickly replaced the focus on the declassified document itself.
In 2007, WikiLeaks published documents on the embezzlement of former Kenyan President Moi, who embezzled $1 billion in state assets during his 24-year reign, drug lords colluding to print counterfeit money, and the current President Kibeki's weakness and compromise with the Moi family. Corruption killings by Kenyan police were exposed. Internal documents from Iceland's largest bank indirectly led to Iceland's financial crisis and triggered the bankruptcy of the entire country. Oil company Tok International was exposed dumping scrap across Africa. A confidential manual for Scientology was published. Slowly, WikiLeaks' goals gradually shifted to the United States, the country with the most developed and secretive Internet. It became the number one enemy of the United States.
In July 2010, WikiLeaks released 92,000 top-secret copies of U.S. military information from the Afghan War. These documents reveal 144 cases of indiscriminate killing and manslaughter of civilians caused by NATO forces, resulting in a total of 195 civilian deaths and 174 injuries.
In October, 392,000 documents on the war in Iraq were published, detailing the deaths of 109,000 Iraqis, including 66,000 civilians and U.S. military abuse, sexual assault, and murder over a six-year period from 2004 to 2009.
In November, more than 250,000 U.S. diplomatic documents were released, containing direct judgments by U.S. diplomats on nuclear disarmament, counterterrorism, and regional conflicts. Then U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton asked diplomats to collect instructions on personal information, bioinformation, and communications information from senior U.N. officials, including U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, a list of core U.S. strategic facilities around the world, and blunt evaluations by U.S. diplomats from world leaders.
The revelation of the document shocked the whole world, and Hillary had to give up Thanksgiving and urgently make a phone call with the foreign ministers. Assange was also blacklisted by the U.S. government and was issued a Red Notice by Interpol.
WikiLeaks has 9 board members, all of whom are mysterious, and Assange is the only person whose identity is public.
He was assassinated at the beginning of the Kenyan presidential document in 2007. Forced to move around the globe: Kenya, Tanzania, Australia, the United States and european countries have his footprints, sometimes staying at airports for days on end, and the documents released in 2010 are enough to make history. All the belongings are a bag of clothes and a computer that people carry with them, which has become a distant figure in people's minds.
In 2012, Assange was granted political asylum in Ecuador, and in December 2017, then-Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno granted Assange Ecuadorian citizenship. On April 11, 2019, Ecuador revoked assures assange's political asylum, and British police subsequently arrested him.
On January 13, 2021, Julian Assange appeared in the District Court of Westminster, England, and the United States sought Assange's extradition. On Feb. 24, a district court in London, England, held a hearing on whether to agree to the U.S. government's extradition of Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks.
On April 20, 2022, the District Court of Westminster in London issued an extradition order to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States, where he will face 175 years in prison.