Assange to give first public address since prison release
The Peninsula
Sydney: Controversial WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange plans to break his post prison silence in an address to the Council of Europe next week, his or...
Sydney: Controversial WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange plans to break his post-prison silence in an address to the Council of Europe next week, his organisation revealed Wednesday.
WikiLeaks said the 53-year-old would travel from his native Australia to Strasbourg on October 1 to testify before a parliamentary legal committee investigating his case.
Assange spent most of the last 14 years either holed up in the Ecuadoran embassy in London to avoid arrest, or locked up at Belmarsh Prison.
He was released from the British prison in June, after serving a sentence for publishing hundreds of thousands of confidential US government documents.
The trove included searingly frank US State Department descriptions of foreign leaders, accounts of extrajudicial killings and intelligence gathering against allies.
