A US court ruled not to order the government to unseal judicial records related to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, which would show if the authorities had brought any charges against the activist, the court filing showed.
“Before the Court is an application filed by the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press (applicant or the Committee) seeking an order unsealing judicial records related to what the Committee believes is a criminal prosecution of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange (Assange). The Committee’s application will be denied without prejudice”, an opinion by US District Judge Leonie Brinkema read.
In November, WikiLeaks and a number of US media outlets published what they claimed was court filing in an unrelated case including some sealed charges, which used Assange’s name in an “apparent cut-and-paste error”.