Julian assange is an australian editor, publisher, and activist who founded wikileaks in 2006. Ecuadors government said wednesday that it had suspended internet access for julian assange, the wikileaks founder who since 2012 has lived. Julian assange has internet connection cut off page 2. These leaks included the baghdad airstrike collateral murder video april 2010, the afghanistan. Julian assange faces us extradition after arrest at ecuadorian. Julian assange pictured clutching a book by gore vidal during his. Freedom and the future of the internet or books, 2012. Julian assange has been silenced again, and the timing is most suspicious.
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