Assange tried to warn US of unredacted leaks on the internet, court hears
Supporters of Julian Assange hold placards as they protest on the second day of a week of opening arguments for the extradition of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange outside Belmarsh Magistrates' Court in south east London
By Berny Torre in Harrogate
By Berny Torre in Harrogate
JULIAN ASSANGE made desperate phone calls to the US State Department warning that unredacted leaked documents were about to appear on the internet, his extradition hearing heard today.
Mark Summers QC, for the Wikileaks founder, said that Mr Assange had worked assiduously to ensure that leaks were redacted so as not to endanger life.
He said the password to an encrypted database was included in a book by Guardian journalists, however, and that unredacted leaks were subsequently published by platforms unrelated to Wikileaks.
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