Who is wikileaks

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WikiLeaks publishes documents of political or historical importance that are censored or otherwise suppressed. We specialise in strategic global publishing and large archives. The following is the address of our secure site where you can anonymously upload your documents to WikiLeaks editors.

You can only access this submissions system through Tor. See our Tor tab for more information. We also advise you to read our tips for sources before submitting. The US has charged him with hacking government computers and espionage after he obtained and published hundreds of thousands of classified documents between and Assange was arrested in April by UK police from the embassy of Ecuador in London, where he had been granted asylum since Assange is an Australian-born computer programmer and founder of WikiLeaks — an international, non-profit whistle-blowing organisation that was created in Iceland in In , Icelandic journalist Kristinn Hrafnsson took over as editor.

Manning was charged and sentenced to 35 years imprisonment in for violating the Espionage Act of , and other offences.

The Espionage Act was passed to deter any interference in US military operations and prevent individuals and groups from supporting enemies of the United States.

WikiLeaks shot to fame in April after the website released a minute video of a US military Apache helicopter firing over and killing more than a dozen Iraqis, including two Reuters journalists. Months later, WikiLeaks published , documents related to the Iraq War. The reports, also referred to as The Iraq War Logs, provided on the ground details as reported by US troops, dating from January to December In November , WikiLeaks published hundreds of thousands of US diplomatic cables, in what is now better known as the Cablegate scandal.

Some , reports were released, dating back to up until February The cables provided analysis and insights from more than US embassies and consulates from around the world. In May , Assange was further charged — under the US Espionage Act of — on 17 counts for soliciting, gathering and publishing US military and diplomatic documents in , all provided by Manning. The website has released numerous troves of documents, known as data or information dumps, in its 15 years of being active.

Some of the most famous are , secret military reports relating to the war in Iraq, and a further 90, on Afghanistan. In , the platform released the now infamous "Collateral Murder" video, which shows soldiers in a US Apache helicopter killing a dozen people on the ground in Baghdad, including two Reuters journalists. Swedish authorities issued an arrest warrant for Assange in over charges of rape and sexual assault.

He was later held in the UK, where he was living at the time, to await the result of an extradition request to face the charges in Sweden. Two years later, however, Assange skipped bail and sought asylum in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, where he would spend the next seven years. By this time, the US had launched an investigation into the publishing of the documents relating to Iraq and Afghanistan and later sought to press charges and extradite Assange from the UK. Such charges included 17 for espionage and one for computer misuse "by cracking a password" with US whistleblower Chelsea Manning.

Manning, a former US army intelligence analyst, was sentenced to 35 years in prison for her part in the leaks, but eventually served seven when former US president Barack Obama commuted her sentence. She was later sent back to prison in March for refusing to testify against WikiLeaks and was ordered to be released around a year later. Meanwhile, relations between Assange and Ecuador had begun to sour amid accusations from President Lenin Moreno of "repeated violations" at the embassy.