Anonymous hackers threatened to avenge the British authorities for the arrest of Assange

Members of the hacker group Anonymous demanded from the UK authorities to free the founder of WikiLeaks Julian Assange. Otherwise, hackers intend to strike a response. This is stated in a message published on the website of "Anonymouses".

"Let go of the assange or you will pay!" - The statement says. Its authors argue that Assange "love people around the world, especially those who are able to see through propaganda, which justifies the foreign policy of the United States and their allies."

Hackers noted that Assange became the enemy of both Democrats and Republicans in the United States. First, he published documents on the "military crimes of the administration of George Bush", and subsequently, before the 2016 presidential election, said Clinton about corruption surrounded by a candidate from the Democratic Party.

The hackers' statement emphasizes that every official involved in the arrest of Assange should now "shake with fear." On such "enemies of the people," Anonymous members are ready to bring down all the power of the Internet.

The authors of the application note that over the past weeks, the chance was missed to save Assange from the arrest. Despite the alarming reports of the impending detention, British citizens did not stand up to the journalist in a live chain around the Ecuador embassy. Now, hackers expect that large -scale protests, comparable to the movement of "yellow vests" in France, can affect the fate of Assange.

Earlier in defense of Assange, a number of human rights organizations have made an Assange. So, Human Rights Watch said that the possible extraction of Assange in the United States could have dangerous consequences for journalists in the digital age, "especially given the frank hostility of the administration [US President Donald] Trump in relation to the leading media.

Human Rights Watch recommended that the UK authorities when making a decision on the issue of issuing US Assange "take into account its physical and mental condition, as well as the probable conditions of detention [under custody] in the United States of a person accused of crimes affecting national security." In this regard, human rights activists recall that UN officers sharply criticized the American authorities for violating the Convention against torture and other cruel, inhuman or humiliating the dignity of circulation and punishment during the pre -trial detention of the former ordinary Ground Forces of the United States, Bradley Mainwood military intelligence analyst.

The Committee for Protection of Journalists (KZH) noted that at the moment the founder of Wikileaks has been charged "on one point of trying to get unauthorized access to the computer."

The document emphasizes that the Assangeu was not charged directly for the publication of the secret data received by him from the former ordinary Ground Forces of the United States, an analyst in American military intelligence Bradley Manning. Such a step, according to KZH, "would have wide negative consequences for the freedom of the press." At the same time, as the representatives of the committee indicate, the US authorities interpret Assange's interaction with Manning as part of a criminal conspiracy.

The British organization "Center for Journalistic Investigations" expressed deep concern about the arrest of Assange, warning that his extradition in the United States would be a blow to journalistic investigations. The organization of Amnesty International also opposed its issuance to the American authorities, stating the risk that his rights in the United States would be violated.

The arrest of the journalist

On the morning of April 11, Australian journalist Julian Assange was arrested at Ecuador Embassy in London, where he had hidden since 2012. The police acted on the basis of an invitation of the Ecuadorian authorities who decided to get rid of their guest.

The arrest was made on the basis of a warrant for failure to appear in the court , issued back in 2012 by the Westminster Magistral Court. Then the court decided to extradite Assange to Sweden, where he was waiting for a trial on accusations of "forcing sexual acts and harassment", as well as in rape. However, the Assange, which was previously released on bail, preferred to hide at the Ecuador embassy - he feared that from Sweden, extradition in the United States is inevitable due to his activities in WikiLeaks.

The second arrest warrant was presented in the police station Assange, this time from the US Department of Justice, which stated that it would seek to issue it. The department clarified that the founder of Wikileaks is charged with a conspiracy to obtain unauthorized access to data that were stored on computers owned by the US government.

Already at 14:00 (16:00 Moscow time), the founder of WikiLeaks was taken to the Westminster Magistian court and, after a short trial, was left in custody, finding guilty of failure to appear in the court in 2012. The Australian himself did not admit his guilt.

This case will now be referred to another London court - the Royal Court of Saautnings, who will determine the measure of punishment: according to the lawyer, his client threatens no more than a year of prison. The Westminster Magrastry Court, in turn, will hold preliminary hearings on the issue of Assange's extradition in the United States on May 2, this process may drag on for many months.

After the arrest of Assange, the British Foreign Minister Jeremy Hunt called not to engage in the heroization of the Australian. “Julian Assange is not a hero, and no one stands above the law. He was hiding for years from the truth for years,” Hunt said, thanking the authorities of Ecuador and President Lenin Moreno for his cooperation, the decision of which he called “very courageous”.

Moreno himself announced that the country's authorities took such a step due to the "aggressive and disrespectful behavior of Assange and its hostile statements to the" South American Republic. At the same time, at the request of the head of state, Kito received from London a guarantee of the non -gourishing of the founder of WikiLeaks to the state, where he will threaten the death penalty.

Meanwhile, the US Department of Justice confirmed that he was seeking Assange's extradition. According to the American authorities, the Assange in 2011 received from the former ordinary Ground Forces of the United States, the analyst of American military intelligence Bradley Manning several hundred thousand reports regarding the war in Afghanistan and Iraq, hundreds of dossier on special fictions based on American Navy in Guantanamo, as well as messages exchanged by the State Department of State. Later, most of these data were published on the WikiLeaks website. Assange is accused of contributing to manning in hacking computers, and also convinced him to abduct other data.

Many media noted that the Assange in the United States could be charged in the United States as to manning, which could threaten the death penalty. He was arrested in 2010 at the American military base in Kuwait, and in 2013 sentenced to 35-year imprisonment on charges of espionage and theft of state property.

During his stay in prison, he announced his intention to change the floor and asked to call him the female name Chelsea, he was allowed to start hormone therapy. Manning was released in 2017, since the sentence was softened by the decision of the 44th US President Barack Obama.

The Assange on the charges against him currently faces up to five years in prison. At the same time, CNN reported with reference to sources that the US authorities can put forward with respect to the founder of WikiLeaks and additional charges.

American officials previously stated that Assange could have information about Russian intervention in the 2016 election in the United States. During the pre -election campaign, WikiLeaks published internal correspondence of the US National Committee of the US Democratic Party, which negatively affected the popularity of the Democrats candidate Hillary Clinton. The US intelligence services claimed that the Russian Federation allegedly organized a hacker attack on the Democrats Committee for the abduction and subsequent transfer of WikiLeaks of these documents.