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Julian Assange

Also known as Julian Paul Assange, Assange, JulianAssange, Julian Paul Hawkins

Australian editor, publisher, and activist (born 1971)

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Julian Paul Assange is an Australian and Ecuadorian citizen born in Townsville, Queensland, on July 3, 1971. His birth name is Julian Paul Hawkins. He is a hacker, programmer, television producer, and television director. He is a member of the WikiLeaks Party and has served as an independent politician. His political ideology is libertarianism. He speaks and writes in English.

Assange was educated at Central Queensland University and the University of Melbourne. He is associated with the employer WikiLeaks. He has received the Sam Adams Award, the Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism, and the Sydney Peace Prize. He has been convicted of cybercrime. His places of residence include the Embassy of Ecuador in London, Magnetic Island, and Melbourne. He has been detained at HM Prison Belmarsh and HM Prison Wandsworth.

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Townsville, Queensland, Australia

Julian Paul Assange (/əˈsɑːnʒ/ ə-SAHNZH;[3] né Hawkins; born 3 July 1971) is an Australian editor, publisher, hacker, and cypherpunk activist. He has a previous conviction for hacking, dating back to 1996. He founded WikiLeaks in 2006; the organisation came to international attention in 2010 when it published a series of leaks provided by U.S. Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning. After the…

Known for

The Six Billion Dollar Man — Self2025
Julian Assange: Silenced2025
Ithaka — Self (archive footage)2022
Der Fall Assange: Eine Chronik2021
Julian Assange: Chronik einer Spionageaffäre2021
Julian Assange: The Price of Truth — Self (archive Footage)2021
Wikileaks – USA against Julian Assange2020
The War on Journalism: The Case of Julian Assange2020
The Assange Story — (archive)2020
XY Chelsea — Self (archive footage)2019

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Instance of: human
Given name: Paul
Gender: male
Citizenship: Ecuador
Place of birth: Townsville
Spouse: Stella Assange
Occupation: television presenter
Educated at: University of Melbourne
Employer: WikiLeaks
Political party: independent politician
Languages spoken: English language
Native language: English language
Image: RUEDA DE PRENSA CONJUNTA ENTRE CANCILLER RICARDO PATIÑO Y JULIAN ASSANGE (cropped).jpg
Residence: Melbourne
Significant event: wedding
Political ideology: libertarianism

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topic's main category: Category:Julian Assange
Commons category: Julian Assange
date of birth: 1971-07-03
birth name: Julian Paul Hawkins
name in native language: Julian Paul Assange
name in kana: ジュリアン・ポール・アサンジ
place of detention: HM Prison Wandsworth
pseudonym: Mendax
start of work period: 1987-00-00
email address: mailto:[email protected]
medical condition: Asperger syndrome
hashtag: assange
writing language: English language

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Encyclopedic overview

Julian Paul Assange (/əˈsɑːnʒ/ ə-SAHNZH; né Hawkins; born 3 July 1971) is an Australian editor, programmer, and publisher who founded WikiLeaks in 2006. He came to international attention in 2010 after WikiLeaks published a series of leaks from Chelsea Manning, a United States Army intelligence analyst: footage of a U.S. airstrike in Baghdad showing war crimes committed by the U.S. Army, U.S. military logs from the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, and U.S. diplomatic cables. Assange has won over two dozen awards for publishing and journalism.

Assange was raised in various places around Australia until his family settled in Melbourne in his middle teens. He became involved in the hacker community and was convicted of hacking in 1996. Following the establishment of WikiLeaks, Assange was its editor when it published the Bank Julius Baer documents, footage of the 2008 Tibetan unrest, and a report on political killings in Kenya with The Sunday Times. Publication of the leaks from Manning started in February 2010.

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