{"id":277537,"date":"2018-09-28T09:03:44","date_gmt":"2018-09-28T07:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=277537"},"modified":"2018-09-28T09:05:41","modified_gmt":"2018-09-28T07:05:41","slug":"julian-assange-steps-down-as-wikileaks-editor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/277537-julian-assange-steps-down-as-wikileaks-editor.html","title":{"rendered":"Julian Assange steps down as WikiLeaks editor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has stepped down as editor-in-chief of the organisation.<\/p>\n<p>Assange appointed former WikiLeaks spokesperson Kristinn Hrafnsson as his replacement after being cut off from communication for six months during his stay at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London.<\/p>\n<p>Assange first sought refuge in the Ecuadorian embassy in London in 2012, but six months ago it cut off his Internet access and prevented him from seeing any visitors &#8211; except his lawyers.<\/p>\n<p>The organisation stated that Assange will continue to be the publisher of WikiLeaks following the appointment of Hrafnsson as editor.<\/p>\n<p>Hrafnsson is an award-winning Icelandic investigative journalist who served as WikiLeaks spokesperson from 2010.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I condemn the treatment of Julian Assange that leads to my new role, but I welcome the responsibility to secure the continuation of the important work based on WikiLeaks ideals,&#8221; Hrafnsson said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">ANNOUNCEMENT: Assange appoints Hrafnsson Editor-in-Chief after six months of effective incommunicado detention, remains publisher [background: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2jOgvSu5bG\">https:\/\/t.co\/2jOgvSu5bG<\/a>] <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0Fwvf3SrkL\">pic.twitter.com\/0Fwvf3SrkL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wikileaks\/status\/1045034219939016704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 26, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/275673-you-can-face-criminal-charges-for-exposing-someone-on-whatsapp.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">You can face criminal charges for \u201cexposing\u201d someone on WhatsApp<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has stepped down as editor-in-chief of the organisation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":183260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[54131,615,613],"class_list":["post-277537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-editor-in-chief","tag-julian-assange","tag-wikileaks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277537"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277537"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":277557,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277537\/revisions\/277557"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}