Still defiant a decade on as Julian Assange vows to scale up operations

Wikileaks’ Julian Assange has vowed to defend the organisation against attack after his intervention in the US presidential election, writes Dan Buckley

I F PROOF was ever needed that the pen is, indeed, mightier than the sword it comes in the shape of a slim, bearded, silver-haired Australian who set up a whistleblowing operation in Iceland 10 years ago that has since gone on to cause fear, loathing and consternation on two continents.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is wanted in the US for espionage, in Sweden to face rape charges and in the UK for bail violation after taking refuge in Ecuador’s London embassy where he has been holed up for the past four years.