The WikiLeaks website has been shut down worldwide, as British media reports Scotland Yard could arrest the site’s founder Julian Assange as early as tomorrow, reports ABC News.<\/p>\n
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WikiLeaks says servers in the United States have killed the site’s domain name following “mass attacks”.<\/p>\n
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The domain hosting withdrawal means the website is down worldwide. Earlier this week Amazon booted WikiLeaks from its servers.<\/p>\n
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Assange’s website this week released more than 250,000 secret US diplomatic cables, which has left governments around the world scrambling to deal with the fallout.<\/p>\n
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Prosecutors in Sweden want to question Assange over alleged sex crimes involving two women during a visit to Stockholm in August.<\/p>\n
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Assange, who was born in Australia, has not been charged and he denies the allegations.<\/p>\n
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He reportedly avoided arrest this week because Swedish authorities had filled out an Interpol red notice incorrectly.<\/p>\n
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Britain’s Independent newspaper reports that police know Assange’s whereabouts in England and are expected to arrest him in the coming days.<\/p>\n
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Assange’s Stockholm-based lawyer Bjoern Hurtig says he will fight his client’s extradition to Sweden in the event of his arrest.<\/p>\n
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“Together with my British colleague Mark Stephens and international experts, we will fight the extradition warrants,” he said.<\/p>\n
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A WikiLeaks spokesman says Assange has to remain out of the public eye because he is facing assassination threats following the whistleblowing website’s publication of the secret cables.<\/p>\n
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Several US senators have also called for him to be charged with espionage.<\/p>\n
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Senator Dianne Feinstein says the leak is a serious breach of national security and action must be taken.<\/p>\n
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“We have reviewed the espionage statutes and we believe it qualifies,” she said.<\/p>\n
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“That this, allowed to be carried out, incapacitates this nation to carry out business.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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