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Julian Paul Assange - WikiLeaks

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Julian Paul Assange – founder WikiLeaks
Julian Paul Assange born on 3 July, 1971 at Townsville Queensland, Australia. His mother was Christine. When Assange was one year old, his mother Christine married to Brett Assange. Brett Assange was a theatre director. Later In 1979, his mother remarried with a musician.Assange has worked as a computer programmer. Also he was a excellent hacker during his youth. He starts hacking by the name Mendax. In 1991Australian Federal Police raided his Melbourne home due to his hacking activity.

In 1993, Assange started one of the first public internet service providers in Australia, Suburbia Public Access Network. Later he started developing free software in 1995. He also had given his contribution as a programmer for PostgreSQL project in 1996. Assange registered a domain leaks.org for a proposed web-based search engines inn 1999, but nothing takes shape for it.

 WikiLeaks was founded in 2006 by Julian Assange. He was the founder, editor in chief spokesperson of  WikiLeaks. Wikileaks is an international organization based in Sweden. WikiLeaks was a conduit for worldwide news leaks. Assange was more concern about freedom of the press, censorship.

He published the material like a report of toxic waste dumping on the African coast, extrajudicial killings in Kenya, Guantanamo Bay procedures, Church of Scientology manuals, , and material involving large banks such as Kaupthing and Julius Baer on wikileaks.  It make WikiLeaks popularity on the peak.

Julian Paul Assange
He received many awards and nominations, together with the 2009 Amnesty International Media Award for publishing material about extrajudicial killings in Kenya and Readers' Choice for Time magazine's 2010 Person of the Year.  Assange got Sam Adams Award in year 2010.


Moreover he also published details about the involvement of the United States in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. It was a big controversy & it appears a hate campaign against America. Assange had posted near about 12 lakh secret documents on WikiLeaks in these four years & it was a bit sensation over web.

Assange is currently wanted for inquiring in Sweden regarding alleged sexual offences, and was arrested in London, England on 7 December 2010. Assange is currently on bail and underhouse arrest in England pending an extradition hearing. But according to Assange all these allegations are politically motivated. Near about 31 cases on him at the age of 29 and he was arrested.

Relating with these controversies, On 6 December, the Swiss bank, PostFinance, announced that it had frozen assets of Assange's totaling 31,000 euros, because he had "provided false information regarding his place of residence" when opening the account. Also Visa, MasterCard and PayPal stops taking decisions donations for WikiLeaks.

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