12-12-16 Assange plans running for Australian Senate

Assange looks to contest Senate election

WIKILEAKS publisher Julian Assange has confirmed his intention to run as a Senate candidate in the 2013 Australian federal election and will announce the formation of a WikiLeaks political party early next year. Julian Assange: The Fugitive Nearly six months after he sought political asylum in Ecuador's London embassy, Mr Assange doesn't expect his circumstances to change soon. Although he thinks it "inevitable" that the United States government will eventually drop its espionage investigation into WikiLeaks, he fears such an outcome may be "several years away". In an interview with Fairfax Media, Mr Assange suggested the court martial of alleged WikiLeaks source, US Army Private Bradley Manning, now scheduled for March, would reveal "details " about how [US prosecutors] may have framed a case for conspiracy between " Manning and myself."

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