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Julian Assange
Quick overview
Born: 3 July 1971 (1971-07-03)(age 39) Nationality : Australian , Occupation : Editor-in- chief and spokesperson for WikiLeaks.
(WikiLeaks is an international non- profit organisation that publishes submissions of private, secret , and classified media from anonymous news sources and news leaks. It expects to be of assistance to people of all regions who wish to reveal unethical behaviour in their governments and corporations.)
Journey to this stage of life

• Parents ran a touring theatre company - His biological father was John Shipton. Mother Christine married theatre director Brett Assange. They ran a touring theatre company. His stepfather, Julian's first " real dad", described Julian as "a very sharp kid" with "a keen sense of right and wrong ". "He always stood up for the underdog ... he was always very angry about people ganging up on other people."
  
• Step -father belonged to a New Age group called Santiniketan Park Association – couple had a son, but broke up in 1982 and engaged in a custody struggle for Assange's half - brother . His divorced mother fled her boyfriend across Australia , taking both children into hiding for the next five years .  moved 30 times before he turned 14
  
• after turning 16, Assange began hacking under the name "Mendax“ - Group International Subversives. Assange wrote down the early rules of the subculture : "Don’t damage computer systems you break into ( including crashing them ); don’t change the information in those systems (except for altering logs to cover your tracks); and share information". The Personal Democracy Forum said he was " Australia 's most famous ethical computer hacker." Assange would have gone to jail for up to 10 years if he had not had such a disrupted childhood. In 1993 he helped Victoria Police Child Exploitation Unit by providing technical advice .
  
• Child custody issues for 10 years - They split up during the period of Assange's arrest and conviction + subsequently engaged in a lengthy custody struggle and did not agree on a custody arrangement until 1999.
  
• WikiLeaks was founded in 2006
  

Awards

• Economist Freedom of Expression Award (2008)- significant contribution to free expression over the past year .
  
• Amnesty International UK Media Award (2009) - for exposing extrajudicial assassinations in Kenya by distributing and publicizing the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR)'s investigation The Cry of Blood .
  
• Sam Adams Award (2010) - to an intelligence professional who has taken a stand for integrity and ethics.
  

Public appearances

• Media conferences - has appeared at media conferences such as New Media Days , on 11 June he was to appear on a Showcase Panel but cancelled.
  
• Officials trying to determine whereabouts - On 10 June 2010, it was reported that Pentagon officials were trying to determine his whereabouts. "Manhunt" on Assange, arguing that they were only based on comments by "anonymous government officials". Had been advised by his lawyers not to travel to the U.S. during that period.
  
• Appearing for the first time in nearly a month - On 21 June 2010, he took part at a hearing in Brussels, Belgium , appearing in public for the first time in nearly a month. He was a member on a panel that discussed Internet censorship and expressed his worries over the recent filtering in countries such as Australia.
  
• At the moment - Smith's Norfolk mansion, Ellingham Hall - Though an Australian citizen , Assange has not had a permanent address for several years. Assange has described himself as constantly on the move . He has lived for periods in Australia, Kenya and Tanzania, and began renting a house in Iceland .
  

10 December 2010 - outside Sydney Town Hall - Prime Minister of Australia, Julia Gillard, called the leaks "an illegal act" and suggested that his Australian passport should be cancelledunable to explain how Assange had broken Australian law. On 10 December 2010 over five hundred people rallied outside Sydney Town Hall and about three hundred and fifty people gathered in BrisbaneA petition circulated by GetUp !, who have placed full page ads in support of Assange in The New York Times and The Washington Times, received more than 50,000 signatures.
Allegations of sexual assault

• Swedish police began an investigation - On 20 August 2010, began an investigation into two separate sexual encounters involving Assange. Assange has said the allegations of wrongdoing are " without basis", describing the sexual encounters as consensual. He turned himself in to the London police, after Interpol put out a notice that he was wanted .
  
• Details about the incidents — hazy - According to a report published yesterday by Reuters, people in Assange's inner circle imply that the charges arose out of a case of STD paranoia. Reuters' sources say that while Assange was visiting Stockholm, he started crashing with — and sleeping with — a woman . Rape and molestation charges against him stemming from the same incidents were dropped, only to be more recently reinstated.
  
• Smith offered to an address for bail — Smith's Norfolk mansion, Ellingham Hall - In a hearing at the City of Westminster Magistrates' Court on 7 December 2010, Assange identified a post office box as his address. When told by the judge that this information was not acceptable, he submitted "Parkville, Victoria, Australia" on a sheet of paper . His lack of permanent address and nomadic lifestyle were cited by the judge as factors in denying bail.[148] He was ultimately released, in part because journalist Vaughan Smith offered to provide Assange with an address for bail during the extradition proceedings, Smith's Norfolk mansion, Ellingham Hall. + ABC news
  

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