WikiLeaks, founded by Julian Assange in Iceland on 4th October 2006, is an international non-profit organisation, whose goal is to publish news leaks as well as classified media from anonymous sources.

US Army Manual for Guantanamo Prison Camp: One of the biggest releases was posted on November 2007, and revealed a 238-page Army manual from 2003 on "standard operating procedures" for camp delta prison. This revealed that the army was keeping prisoners from red cross inspectors and even kept in isolation for over 2 weeks to make them more compliant with interrogation.

US Hellicopter Fire Killing Civilians in Iraq: A video was published showing footage of a 2007 US. Apache helicopter attack that killed eighteen innocent people including a news photographer.

570,000 Messages sent on 9/11: WikiLeaks published over half a million messages sent withing the 24 hour period of the September 11th attack which resulted in nearly 3,000 deaths. The messages had exchanges between the "pentagon, FBI, FEMA and New York Police Deppartment With the release of the messges WikiLeaks stated, "We hope that its entrance into the historical record will lead to a nuanced understanding of how this event led to death, opportunism and war."

Publishing of Democrat Emails: During the 2016 US presidential election, WikiLeaks published thousands of emails from Hillary Clinton's campaign manager John Podesta. The emails suggested that a CNN contributor tipped off the Clinton campaign about a question that was going to come up during the debate. Thanks to the timing of the leak, accusations that WikiLeaks was deliberaltely trying to discredit the Clinton campaign emerged.

First Publication of WikiLeaks: The first document to be posted on WikiLeaks was of a message from a Somali rebel leader ancouraging the use of hired gunmen to assassinate government officials in December 2006. The authenticity of these documents was not verified but gained more credibility with WikiLeaks future posts.

The Minton Report: This leak exposed how the Ductch multinational company "Trafigura" had dumped toxic waste into the Ivory Coast. This affected the lives of 108,000 people. The information was supressed through a super injunction that the BBC and Guardian obeyed, however WikiLeaks did not.

The Democratic National Committee Leaks: 19,252 emails and 8,034 attatchments were leaked from the US Democratic National Party leadership. This resulted in the resignation of 5, top officials who had stacked the chips against one of two democratic candidates, Bernie Sanders, to favour Hillary Clinton by pressuring media outlets such as CNN, MSNBC and black PR methods. This caused mass public outrage surrounding the US elections.

War for Africa's Uranium and Mineral Rights: On the 5th February, WikiLeaks released documents that open up the corrupt multi-billion dollar war by Western and Chinese companies, who grab uranium and other mining rights in the Central African Republic and escape paying for the environmental consequences.

Who is Julian Assange? Assange is an Australian computer programmer born on 3rd July, 1971. He created WikiLeaks to practice what he called "Scientific Journalism", meaning he wanted to provide the primary source material with minimal edditor input, and as a result hs released thousands of internal and classified documents from the government officials and corporate entities.

The Afghan War Logs: In July of 2010, WikiLeaks shared over 75,000 classified documents that recorded undisclosed civilian casualties inflicted by the U.S. and coalition forces, details of the pursuit of Osama bin Laden and accounts of stepped-up fighting by the Taliban.

National Security Agency Documents: WikiLeaks posted documents revealing American surveilance of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Francois Hollande, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon as well as prime ministers of Italy and Israel on July 2015.

Vault 7: On March of 2017, WikiLeaks posted the vault 7, which was claimed to be a collection of thousands of internal Central Intelligence Agency documents. The documents consisted of information about a covert hacking program carried out by the agency as well as malware and software that is used to spy on smart TVs, the operating systems of most smartphones and Web browsers.

Jullian Assange - The Aftermath: November 2010, Sweden issued a European arrest warrant for Assange over allegations of sexual misconduct. Assange claimed that such allegations were pretext for his extradition from Sweden to the US over his role in the publication of seceret American information.

Jullian Assange - Where is he now? After Assange's asylum was revoked, he was arrested by the Metropolitan Police. Following his arrest, a US indictment from 2018 was made public accusing Assange of conspiracy to commit computer intrusion relating to WikiLeaks. On 1st, July 2022 it has been announced that Assange has formally appealed against the extradition order and has been confined in Belmarsh, London since April 2019.