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WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange Arrested in London Today!
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange (L) stands with his lawyer Jennifer Robinson as he makes a statement to the media in front of Belmarsh Magistrates' Court in London January 11, 2011. Assange appeared in the London court on Tuesday as lawyers draw the battle lines in his fight to avoid extradition to Sweden for questioning about alleged sex crimes.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, right, leaves Belmarsh Magistrate's court in London, with lawyer Jennifer Robinson, centre, after his extradition hearing, Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2011. Assange is in court Tuesday for a procedural hearing which lasted for only about 10 minutes, as part of his fight to avoid extradition to Sweden on sex crimes allegations.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange (L) prepares to receive CD's containing data on offshore bank account holders from former Swiss private banker Rudolf Elmer at the Frontline club in London, January 17, 2011. A former Swiss private banker handed over data on hundreds of offshore bank account holders to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange at a news conference on Monday.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange (L) is given two CDs by former Swiss banker Rudolf Elmer during a press conference at the Frontline club in London, on January 17, 2011. An offshore banking whistleblower on Monday personally handed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange two CDs reportedly containing the names of 2,000 bank clients who may have been evading taxes. Swiss banker Rudolf Elmer, who worked for eight years in the Cayman Islands, a British overseas territory in the Caribbean, said he wanted the world to know the truth about money concealed in offshore accounts.
WikiLeaks to Publish Client Data From Ex-Julius Baer Banker
Gavin Finch and Warren Giles
Bloomberg
January 17, 2011
WikiLeaks plans to release data on about 2,000 cross-border bank accounts provided by a former Julius Baer Group Ltd. employee, who says they may have been set up to evade taxes.
Rudolf Elmer, who was dismissed as chief operating officer by Julius Baer Bank & Trust Company Ltd. in the Cayman Islands in December 2002, handed over the information today, including data on 40 politicians, to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
“There will be a full revelation,” Assange told reporters today in London, adding that the data will take at least two weeks to check and disseminate. Elmer “is a whistleblower and he has important things to say,” he said.
WikiLeaks drew condemnation from the U.S. government for posting thousands of classified U.S. diplomatic communications and military documents to its Web site, including a video of a July 2007 helicopter attack in Iraq that killed a Reuters television cameraman and his driver
Gavin Finch and Warren Giles
Bloomberg
January 17, 2011
WikiLeaks plans to release data on about 2,000 cross-border bank accounts provided by a former Julius Baer Group Ltd. employee, who says they may have been set up to evade taxes.
Rudolf Elmer, who was dismissed as chief operating officer by Julius Baer Bank & Trust Company Ltd. in the Cayman Islands in December 2002, handed over the information today, including data on 40 politicians, to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
“There will be a full revelation,” Assange told reporters today in London, adding that the data will take at least two weeks to check and disseminate. Elmer “is a whistleblower and he has important things to say,” he said.
WikiLeaks drew condemnation from the U.S. government for posting thousands of classified U.S. diplomatic communications and military documents to its Web site, including a video of a July 2007 helicopter attack in Iraq that killed a Reuters television cameraman and his driver
Rudolf Elmer, who worked in the Cayman Islands for eight years, said: "I know how the system works... It's damaging... (I want) to educate our society."
Elmer told Reuters that he hoped his appearance at the news conference would both call attention to offshore financial abuses and promote WikiLeaks as a mechanism for other whistleblowers to air their stories.
Julius Baer said Elmer, who the company fired in 2002, had other motives.
In this photo released by the Jordanian Royal Palace, King Abdullah II of Jordan, left, receives Hamza Mansour, Jordan's Muslim opposition leader, right, in Amman, Jordan, Thursday, Feb. 3, 2011. A secret U.S. diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks indicates that in 2009 the U.S. ambassador to Jordan had little faith in King Abdullah II's promises to initiate reforms in his country.
Julian Assange (C), the founder of the WikiLeaks website, leaves a property close to the Frontline Club to travel to Belmarsh Magistrates' Court on February 7, 2011 in London, England. Mr Assange will begin his challenge to a proposed extradition from the UK to Sweden on grounds of alleged sexual assault against two women.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange (C), arrives at Belmarsh Magistrates' Court, in south-east London, on February 7, 2011. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange appears in a British court on Monday to fight his extradition to Sweden, with leaked details shedding new light on the rape and molestation accusations he faces. The two-day hearing at a high security London court will examine a Swedish arrest warrant for the 39-year-old Australian, who won worldwide notoriety for his website's release of thousands of secret US diplomatic cables.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, right, walks flanked by his lawyer Mark Stephens as they leave Belmarsh Magistrates' Court in London, Monday, Feb. 7, 2011. The lawyer for Assange argued Monday the embattled WikiLeaks founder would face a secret trial that violates international standards of fairness if sent to Sweden to face sexual assault allegations. The leader of the secret-spilling website is fighting extradition in part because Swedish rape trials are customarily held in secret, Geoffrey Robertson said at the start of a two-day extradition hearing.
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