Wikileaks Founder’s Passport Seized in Australia
Officials Warn Passport About to Be Canceled
Australian-born Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, it was reported today, had his passport briefly seized by officials when he arrived at Melbourne Airport.
Assange, whose work with the whistleblower website has often made him a target, was initially told his passport looked a bit worn, at which point it was seized by police. Immigration officials later told him his passport was going to be canceled.
Though his passport has been returned and officials say he is currently allowed to leave the country, police rummaged through his bags and questioned him regarding a 1991 conviction for computer hacking, when he was a teenager.
Australia’s Federal Police have been investigating Assange over the leaking of a list of websites banned in Australia, which was published on Wikileaks, though they later insisted the case had been dropped.
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RockyRococo
May 18th, 2010 at 8:33 am
There's no longer even a pretense on the part of Empire of being anything but totalitarian, is there? Even in its "Anglo-Saxon" heartlands.
Wolfgang
May 18th, 2010 at 12:57 pm
Maybe those Australians have been forced to make a copy for the Mossad? For the next killings?
W.
Valerianus
May 18th, 2010 at 9:18 pm
The fangs are constantly bared now, because it is no longer considered necessary to keep up any pretenses about what they are doing.
bobbie
May 18th, 2010 at 11:16 pm
Cryptome.org and Wikileaks are both under politically-motivated attack, as is net neutrality in the US.