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Swiss banker linked to WikiLeaks on trial over secrecy

ZURICH (Reuters) - Swiss banker Rudolf Elmer, among the first to use WikiLeaks to publish private bank documents, goes on trial Wednesday charged with breaching banking secrecy and threatening his former employer.

WikiLeaks unlikely to release Swiss bank data soon

LONDON (Reuters) - WikiLeaks is unlikely anytime soon to make public material provided to it this week by Swiss bank whistleblower Rudolf Elmer, according to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and sources close to Elmer. | Video

Technology, World, 10:27am EST

Swiss whistleblower hands bank data to WikiLeaks

LONDON (Reuters) - A former Swiss private banker handed over data on hundreds of offshore bank account holders to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Monday, saying he wanted to draw attention to financial abuses. | Video

World, Technology, 17 Jan 2011

Swiss tax whistleblower to give WikiLeaks new data: report

ZURICH (Reuters) - A former Swiss private banker who was one of the first whistleblowers to use WikiLeaks by publishing internal bank documents on the site has pledged to hand over new data on offshore bank account holders on Monday, a newspaper said.

16 Jan 2011

WikiLeaks gives $15,000 for accused leaker defense: group

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - WikiLeaks has contributed $15,100 to help defend a junior U.S. soldier accused of leaking to it hundreds of thousands of sensitive diplomatic cables and other secret documents, a support group said on Thursday.

U.S., 13 Jan 2011

WikiLeaks activists may seek to quash demand for docs

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two prominent WikiLeaks supporters in the Netherlands and Iceland are consulting U.S. lawyers about ways to stop the Justice Department getting their Twitter records in a probe into the leak of secret documents.

Technology, U.S., 11 Jan 2011

Assange could face death penalty in U.S.: lawyers

LONDON (Reuters) - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will argue he should not be extradited from Britain to Sweden over alleged sex crimes because he could end up in the United States facing the death penalty, his lawyers said on Tuesday.

World, Technology, 11 Jan 2011

Assange due in UK court over Swedish extradition

LONDON (Reuters) - WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange is due to appear in a London court on Tuesday as lawyers draw the battle lines in his fight to avoid extradition to Sweden for questioning about alleged sex crimes.

Technology, World, 10 Jan 2011

U.S. orders Twitter to hand over WikiLeaks records

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. court has ordered Twitter to hand over details of the accounts of WikiLeaks and several supporters as part of a criminal investigation into the release of hundreds of thousands of confidential documents.

Technology, 08 Jan 2011

U.S. relocates some people named in WikiLeaks cables

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has warned several hundred people worldwide it believes may be imperiled by WikiLeaks' release of classified U.S. diplomatic cables and has so far helped a handful of them relocate to safer locations, the State Department said on Friday.

World, 07 Jan 2011

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WikiLeaks shows range of intel gathering

From African leaders' credit card numbers to the friendships of British politicians, the WikiLeaks cables show U.S. diplomats left no stone unturned in efforts to gather information on friends as well as foes. Full Article