Julian Assange

Julian Assange is an Australian editor and activist who founded WikiLeaks. He became internationally known for publishing classified government and military documents.

Collateral Murder: A 2010 WikiLeaks video showing a 2007 U.S. helicopter attack in Baghdad that killed civilians and two Reuters employees. This release became one of WikiLeaks’ most widely discussed disclosures under Assange.
WikiLeaks: A publishing organization that releases leaked documents and other materials of public interest. Assange founded and led the organization responsible for his best-known publications.
Espionage Act of 1917: A United States federal law that criminalizes certain conduct involving national defense information and espionage. U.S. prosecutors used the law in charges arising from WikiLeaks’ classified-document publications.
Townsville: A coastal city in Queensland, Australia, and one of the places where Julian Assange grew up. Assange’s early years in Townsville preceded his work as a computer programmer and activist.
Afghan War Diary: A collection of classified U.S. military field reports from the war in Afghanistan, published by WikiLeaks in 2010. Its publication brought Assange into a dispute over source protection and editorial redaction.
SecureDrop: An open-source system that lets news organizations receive documents from anonymous sources securely. It offers a newsroom-centered model of secure leaks distinct from WikiLeaks’ centralized publishing platform.
First Amendment to the United States Constitution: The constitutional provision protecting freedoms including speech, press, religion, assembly, and petition in the United States. Assange’s prosecution prompted debate over how press protections apply to publishing classified material.
Mendax: The hacker alias used by Julian Assange in the 1980s and early 1990s. The alias marks Assange’s early involvement in computer hacking before WikiLeaks.
Iraq War Logs: Hundreds of thousands of classified U.S. military reports about the Iraq War, published by WikiLeaks in 2010. The release documented battlefield incidents and alleged abuses during Assange’s editorial tenure.
Source protection: Journalistic practices and legal principles intended to protect confidential sources from identification or retaliation. WikiLeaks’ handling of source identities became a major point of dispute around its releases.

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