Euronews
| Mar 7, 2013
Osama bin Laden's son-in-law and post-September 11 mouthpiece Sulaiman Abu Ghaith is due to face a Manhattan court on charges of conspiring to kill Americans. The senior al-Qaeda member was brought to New York after Jordanian authorities turned hi...
Al Jazeera English
| Oct 16, 2012
The British government won't ship computer geek Gary McKinnon to the US to face charges that he broke into nearly 100 Pentagon and NASA computers seeking information on UFOs. They believe extradition would place the 46-year-old hacker, who has Asp...
Al Jazeera English
| Oct 14, 2012
A British hacker fighting a ten-year battle against extradition to the US to face charges that he cracked into Pentagon computers is about to learn his fate. Government officials decide this week whether to block extradition after considering medi...
Al Jazeera English
| Oct 6, 2012
Muslim cleric Abu Hamza has appeared in a New York court where the charges against him were formally read out. Abu Hamza is one of the five men extradited to the US after a long legal fight in Britain. He faces 11 charges, including plotting to s...
Telegraph.co.uk
| Aug 21, 2012
Ecuador's President Rafael Correa warns Britain would regret entering the Ecuadorian embassy to seize Julian Assange, while the US State Department argues the Wikileaks founder is trying to deflect attention from sexual assualt allegations i...
ITN News
| Aug 19, 2012
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange made his first public appearance in two months from the Ecuadorian embassy in London Sunday. In a speech, he said he had taken a "stand for justice" and called upon US President Barack Obama to end the "witch-hunt"...
Telegraph.co.uk
| Aug 16, 2012
Ecuadorean foreign minister Ricardo Patiño confirms Julian Assange has been granted political asylum. In a strongly worded statement, he said Assange could face political persecution if his extradition was allowed to go ahead, and Sweden an...
ABC News (Australia)
| Aug 16, 2012
Ecuador has announced it will grant WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange political asylum, but the practicalities of getting him from London to Quito remain in question.
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