I spoke to Legal Cheek's Katie King this afternoon about today's Julian Assange news and the Labour party's appeal, heard today, against the High Court's ruling that it must allow members signed up in the last six months a vote in [...]
Here's the opinion of the UN working group on arbitrary detention, which has concluded that Britain and Sweden have arbitrarily detained Julian Assange. It calls on both countries to release him, and pay him compensation. UN Working Group on Arbitrary [...]
We awoke to the extraordinary news that Julian Assange had announced he'd leave the Ecuadorian embassy in London tomorrow and submit to arrest if the UN working group on arbitrary detention turned down his complaint to them. Shortly afterwards, the [...]
In a word – no. In a press conference this morning, Julian Assange told reporters a Wikleaks spokesman could confirm that I am leaving the embassy soon and the Ecuadorian Foreign Minister, according to the Guardian referred to recent changes to [...]
It's a year since Julian Assange's extraordinary decision to seek refuge in Ecuador's London embassy. What should be done about him? The government has three broad options: it can try to de-recognise Ecuador's embassy or break off diplomatic relations and [...]
I went along tonight to hear Julian Assange's speech wondering just slightly if he might not astonish the world, and announce his exit into the arms of the police. Anything, as we've learned, can happen with Assange, and time, and [...]
This afternoon I spoke to Charles Crawford, the former British ambassador to Sarajevo, Belgrade and Warsaw and now mediator and Telegraph blogger, about the international law and diplomatic ramifications of the Julian Assange stand-off. He shares his view about the [...]
A few thoughts, following Julian Assange's extraordinary statement from the windows of the Ecuadorian embassy earlier today. First, the physical arrangements. What was interesting was that he didn't even step on to the balcony proper; he remained firmly on the [...]
This afternoon I spoke to Charon QC about Ecuador's decision to grant asylum to Julian Assange. The interview deals with a number of myths that have attached to this case - including the idea that what he's suspected of in [...]
The latest twist in the Julian Assange case, as we await Ecuador's decision on granting him asylum (a decision which would not, as I've written before, in itself allow protection from arrest if he steps outside the embassy), is that [...]