Wikileaks: Assange bail hearing in UK today, statement from jail

(PHOTO contributed to the Boing Boing Flickr pool by BB reader Mark Burban, aka pixelwhip.) • Lawyers for Julian Assange will today attempt to gain bail for the Wikileaks founder, who is currently being held in a UK prison. • Anonymous may target UK websites if bail is denied. • Assange issued a statement from jail by way of his mother, which said in part, "We now know that Visa, Mastercard and Paypal are instruments of US foreign policy. It's not something we knew before." • Assange's attorney: "We have heard from the Swedish authorities that there has been a secretly impaneled grand jury in Alexandria (Virginia)."...

Wikileaks: Assange bail hearing in UK today, statement from jail

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Europe Suggests Jail Time for Insider Trading

European officials noted that the severity of penalties and fines for market abuses varied widely across the bloc.

Europe Suggests Jail Time for Insider Trading

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