Who is Julian Assange? Part II

This overview provides all important dates and facts about the founder of WikiLeaks: Julian Assange.

- Date of birth: 3rd 7.1971 (Townsville, Australia)
- founder of the Internet platform WikiLeaks
- grew up with his mother (link: video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVGqE726OAo)
- Parents broke up their relationship when Assange was one year old
- had to move house several times
- studied Maths and Physics at university in Melbourne
- but he dropped his academic studies without a degree
- travelled to the US, Great Britain, Australia and Iran
- jobbed mainly as a programmer
- 1987: founded the organisation “International Subverises“
- Two other computer programmer joined
- Assange’s pseudonym: “Mendax”
- 1991: house search in Melbourne
- The Australian Federal Police suspected him of “hacking” several computer
systems
but they couldn’t adduce evidence
- 1992: Assange was accused of “hacking” in more than 24 computer systems
- 2006: Julian Assange founded WikiLeaks
- 2008: he was honored with the award of the Index on Censorship
- 2009: he won the Amnesty International Media Award
- since June 2010: Assange has been persecuted by the American government,
because of his access to private US-documents and military records
- since August 2010: charge of sexual abusement
- since December 2010: persecution by Interpol
- 7th December 2010: Assange surrendered to the police
- 14th December 2010: Assange released on bail

See online source:
http://www.in-australien.com/julian-assange-wikileaks-grunder-biographie-julian-assange_106356)