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Sleeping in the women's toilet, suffering from heart disease, exposing the United States to be sheltered for 7 years, what did Assange go through?

author:Jun Yao Wanshi

There is a website in the West called "WikiLeaks", which is different from the so-called "Wikipedia", which is a website specializing in intelligence leakage, exposing the crimes of Western politicians, and the many fierce materials that have been exposed have almost shocked the whole world.

But it is so mysterious that it comes and goes like a ghost on the Internet, leaving many governments such as Europe and the United States that hate it helpless.

The founder of the hacking site, Named Julian Assange, is known as the most hated person in the United States since "bin Laden", and he is not afraid to confront the US government with "fighting to protect the privacy of citizens".

Sleeping in the women's toilet, suffering from heart disease, exposing the United States to be sheltered for 7 years, what did Assange go through?

But as the information he disclosed became more secretive and the impact grew, governments began a joint wanted and all-out surveillance investigation of him, a war of persecutors and supporters, and Assange himself experienced a long period of refuge in many embassies, just across the wall, at great risk of imprisonment and assassination.

Who is this Assange? What was his motivation for risking his life to disclose government privacy? Like the once-famous Snowden, can Assange finally get safe haven?

Sleeping in the women's toilet, suffering from heart disease, exposing the United States to be sheltered for 7 years, what did Assange go through?

Julian Assange was born on July 3, 1971 in Townsville, Australia, and the family environment can only be described as very bad, his parents divorced at the age of two, and his mother and stepfather divorced again at the age of eight.

Throughout his childhood, Assange was in a state of turmoil with his mother, moving 37 times in more than a decade (some say 37 times), and almost never settled down.

Although seemingly miserable, Assange's mother has always loved him, and after a long period of "wandering", he has developed a free and adventurous personality.

In addition, when he was 4 years old, a friend of his mother's side stumbled upon the Secret Nuclear Test conducted by the British government in southern Australia.

Sleeping in the women's toilet, suffering from heart disease, exposing the United States to be sheltered for 7 years, what did Assange go through?

The man was indignant and wanted to report it, but was beaten mercilessly by the police, and Assange's mother was warned, who threatened to shut up by depriving her of custody of him.

Although Assange was still very young at the time, he was always impressed by this matter, which laid the groundwork for his later actions.

But this life has made Assange's study a very troublesome thing, and it is difficult for him to get knowledge from formal education after intermittently changing schools, and his mother even refused to send him to school.

Because the mother feels that going to school is subtly cultivating children's reverence for power.

Sleeping in the women's toilet, suffering from heart disease, exposing the United States to be sheltered for 7 years, what did Assange go through?

So Assange had long learned to read a lot of his own, and when he was 16 years old, he was exposed to computers, and then his mother bought this computer and gave it to him, and he began to learn continuously, which was undoubtedly the biggest turning point in his life.

At that time, the Internet was not only not yet popular, but even just born not too long, quite talented Assange with interest and tireless efforts, the understanding of decoding, programming by leaps and bounds, he can freely grab the information he wants on major websites, in the continuous exploration he quickly became a well-known hacker.

As one of the first people to play with the Internet, Assange was not satisfied, and soon after he and two other hackers co-founded a group called "International Subversives", which hacked into computer networks in European and North American government systems, causing a close investigation by the Australian police.

Sleeping in the women's toilet, suffering from heart disease, exposing the United States to be sheltered for 7 years, what did Assange go through?

Soon Assange was knocked on the door, and the police threw out 31 charges in one go, but because it was difficult to find a technician who could match Assange, it encountered great difficulties in the investigation, and it took 3 years to piece together the evidence.

Although In the end, Assange was only sentenced to a small number of fines, in the storm of continuous litigation, hearings, public opinion, etc., his family was torn apart, and his wife and children left him, which made him sad overnight.

Since then, resentment of government authority has intensified in Assange's mind, as his masterful hacking skills have allowed him to browse all kinds of secret information on the Internet at will, as well as many scandals and secrets within the government.

Assange was a man who stood out several characteristics: persistence, compassion, not compromising with lies from an early age, and a firm desire to be truthful.

Sleeping in the women's toilet, suffering from heart disease, exposing the United States to be sheltered for 7 years, what did Assange go through?

After the divorce, Assange, with his genius mind, has successively done some professions such as programmers and computer security consultants, and the treatment is almost very good, but he always feels dissatisfied.

In this context, he eventually led the creation of a website called WikiLeaks in January 2006, a mysterious, special, and unprecedented website that was launched to:

Freedom of information, uncovering the truth, creating and preserving true history

Specifically, it is to disclose to the public some ugly government secrets that they would never normally be able to access.

Sleeping in the women's toilet, suffering from heart disease, exposing the United States to be sheltered for 7 years, what did Assange go through?

In terms of personnel composition, the core team composed of Assange himself and a total of 9 of his cutting-edge hacking partners is also the board of directors, and the other staff members are completely distributed in many countries and regions around the world, and the computers they use are also distributed all over the world, and are not restricted by any national laws.

Although it is a private institution, the behavior of the website is quite rigorous, after all, it is mainly based on information, so when reviewing and screening this information, the official will organize a series of experts in data identification, handwriting experts and experts in the field of political economy to distinguish, and can only be uploaded after strict confirmation.

One might ask, what can a small website like this do? In fact, since the beginning of the twentieth century, the importance of information has far exceeded the imagination of all.

At first, Assange was more restrained, exposing news related to small countries, but in December 2006, WikiLeaks was the first to strike hard, directly releasing 400,000 documents about the US Iraq War, including photos of the bodies of Iraqi civilians killed in the exchange of fire.

Sleeping in the women's toilet, suffering from heart disease, exposing the United States to be sheltered for 7 years, what did Assange go through?

Assange argues that the power wielded by many governments and large institutions is so overwhelming that they conceal and deceive too much in public affairs, which is an insult to the public.

In the past, many traditional media have become the mouthpiece of the government, and some things are found to be too involved to be investigated at all, so citizens will never hear the truth.

The paranoid Assange even threw out the detailed informant and undercover list of the US military in the war, which not only made the members of the board leave a few, but also made him a direct enemy of the United States.

This information instantly set off a storm that swept the world, and a small website that had just been founded quickly became the center of public opinion.

Sleeping in the women's toilet, suffering from heart disease, exposing the United States to be sheltered for 7 years, what did Assange go through?

But in this case, Assange is definitely going to be unlucky, for the United States, which dominates the world, it is unacceptable for a hacker to bring such a big loss, not to mention that he claims to have more and more explosive material in his hands, and Assange is also very clear that he may even be assassinated at any time.

So he began a "wandering" career like his childhood, just with a handbag with his laptop, he can travel back and forth between countries, but he must often dye his hair, prepare a lot of documents, can not swipe credit cards, and constantly change mobile phone numbers.

Every day when he went to sleep, he would be afraid, in order to avoid a sudden shot from the window, he did not even dare to sleep in bed, only lying on the sofa or the floor.

Sleeping in the women's toilet, suffering from heart disease, exposing the United States to be sheltered for 7 years, what did Assange go through?

Even so, when Assange came to Sweden, he was still entangled: he attended a seminar among his supporters in the Swedish capital, Stockholm, after which two women named Anna Adin and Sophia Viren offered to hug him.

But after having sex, He directly charged Assange with sexual harassment and rape to the police, and soon after, Interpol issued a red notice.

A simple rape case that made Interpol rush into action was obviously premeditated, but in any case, it did make Assange encounter greater difficulties, and in desperation, he turned himself in to the London police in 2010.

But you know, during his time in exile, "WikiLeaks" did not stop for a moment, and the secrets that broke out were more and more exaggerated:

Sleeping in the women's toilet, suffering from heart disease, exposing the United States to be sheltered for 7 years, what did Assange go through?

In early 2007, when a corruption scandal at the top of the Kenyan government was exposed, it was the time of the presidential election, and when the matter came out, more than 10% of citizens directly changed the votes, almost completely changing the outcome of the election.

Soon after, the "Guantanamo Prison" was exposed again, in which the United States Department of Defense directly instructed soldiers to commit a series of inhumane acts against prisoners of war.

In 2009, the website published more than a thousand letters from the Institute of Meteorology at the University of East Anglia in England, showing that many scientists had altered data without authorization to prove that the main cause of global warming today was humans.

In 2010, WikiLeaks dropped another "depth charge" against the United States, and they exposed a video of a U.S. military helicopter gunship in Baghdad firing wildly at the ground, directly causing the deaths of many people, including two Reuters reporters.

Sleeping in the women's toilet, suffering from heart disease, exposing the United States to be sheltered for 7 years, what did Assange go through?

Two months later, more than 7,000 top-secret documents on the War in Afghanistan were produced, the most powerful of which was the ironclad evidence of the civilian casualties caused by the US military in the Afghan War, as well as the secret collusion between Pakistan and the Taliban, which directly blew up the United States and international public opinion.

Assange's stormy offensive and the "Prism Gate" incident triggered by Snowden in 2013 really made many high-level officials in the US government feel a huge threat, and at the same time, the US government and military were under siege by public opinion.

But Snowden soon leaned on Russia's lap and secured a very safe haven, but Assange still faced a crisis.

Although the lawsuit is still ongoing, Assange is directly under house arrest in Britain, and he has to report to the police every day, and his passport and computer are temporarily seized, and he will be closely monitored no matter where he is.

Sleeping in the women's toilet, suffering from heart disease, exposing the United States to be sheltered for 7 years, what did Assange go through?

But his first problem now is to win the case, because if he is extradited to Sweden, he is likely to be extradited to the United States again, and his life is too much of a threat.

In three successive rulings, the British court fully agreed to Sweden's extradition request and refused his bail, but in the end, the British government's attitude was slightly relaxed by the activities of his more than 600,000 followers and parties, and Assange also won political asylum from the Ecuadorian government.

But this kind of shelter is better than nothing, because Assange has since curled up in the embassy for a long time, not even having the opportunity to go out every day, and the room he lives in has been converted from the previous women's toilet.

But he lived for many years, and his long-term isolation in a dark environment and isolated days even caused him to suffer from physical diseases such as high blood pressure and heart disease.

Sleeping in the women's toilet, suffering from heart disease, exposing the United States to be sheltered for 7 years, what did Assange go through?

In the outside world, the accusations against Assange have never stopped, and the United States is always looking for opportunities to prosecute this hated hacker, and the plan to extradite him to the United States has been trying.

But by this time he had countless supporters around the world — Mexicans had built plaques to pay tribute to him, Pakistani people marched in the streets, publicly burned the British and American flags to show support for Assange, and tens of thousands of people in his hometown of Australia blocked government buildings to protest and demand that the government support his compatriots.

Previously, major U.S. banks had imposed a long,fervent economic blockade on Assange and his WikiLeaks, but now the site has received large amounts of money from around the world.

Assange remains uncompromising on issues with the United States, even though he has been under pressure for too long, and the United States, even if there is a little "way", does not dare to act rashly.

Sleeping in the women's toilet, suffering from heart disease, exposing the United States to be sheltered for 7 years, what did Assange go through?

Because Assange has long ago publicly stated that he has a part of the ultra-confidential documents "enough to subvert American politics", and if he is accidentally or killed, all of this information will be published by friends in front of the world.

So where will Assange go, this is the focus of attention, whether to find a stable backer like Snowden, or to be finally "eliminated" by the US government silently? Then there will be time for answers.

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