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'Operation Free Assange' – Anonymous takes down Interpol website

Published time: August 26, 2012 21:23
Edited time: August 29, 2012 13:35
Interpol

Hacktivist group Anonymous claimed they took down the websites of Interpol and a British police unit as part of a campaign demanding freedom for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

Several Twitter accounts associated with the loose-knit hacker collective Anonymous announced that the website of International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) had been taken down. The site was unavailable as of 9:18 pm GMT on Sunday, but resumed functioning soon afterward.

The hackers also claimed to have taken down the website of the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA), a UK police unit responsible for operations against major criminal organizations.

Assange, the founder and editor of whistleblowing website WikiLeaks, was ordered by Swedish authorities to be extradited from the UK, where he had been under house arrest before taking refuge at London's Ecuadorian embassy. Two women from Sweden have accused Assange of sex crimes, for which he has not yet been charged.

Assange applied for political asylum in Ecuador over fears that he would be extradited from Sweden to the US, where he would be tried for espionage for his role with WikiLeaks. The Latin American country granted Assange's request earlier this month.

British authorities have refused to guarantee safe passage out of London for Assange.

Comments (43)

georgio (unregistered) 03.10.2012 06:05

To RT: Yes, Jimmy Bean was correct...i.e. so many typos. Look, if you're going to use a foreign language, use it (correctly) rather
than abuse it. While I sincerely appreciate your site, as an English speaker, it is a bit both demeaning, and somewhat insulting.
Thanks for paying attention to this "etomotoligistically " directed item!

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Jimmy Bean (unregistered) 28.08.2012 19:08

wow. so many typos in this article, even the headline.. RT come on!

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Ryan (unregistered) 27.08.2012 23:06

realreform, a nation has a right to defend  itself and a right to maintain national security secrets. You and your fellow cohorts are incredibly naive human beings who rarely think about the ramifications of “transparency”.A ssange is a nincompoop whose actions will only benefit the Al Quedas of the world. 
What is more the acts of Wikileaks and Anonymous will NOT increases transparency, but only push governments to develop further a second internet where Wikileaks and Anonymous cannot touch it. Then there will be even more stringent access to such information.Do you really think that that the US governments, who developed the internet, cannot find a technological way to marginalize the Anonymous’ of the world? They have BILLIONS to do this. 

Down with nationalism? What do you think socialism is? It is simply another form of nationalism. It is the destruction of the individual rights and wants for the “better good” of the people(or state in nationalist parlance). I don’t see how one can be a socialist on one hand and anti-nationalism on the other. They are two sides of the same coin.  The rights of the mass(people, state) reign supreme over the rights of the individual. 
War crimes is in the eye of the beholder. I’ll gladly commit a war crime to protect my family. And  truth be told there is not a larger paper tiger than international law. It has no teeth. War crimes in effect do not really exist for there is no independent force capable of going arresting those charged with said war crimes. 
I laugh at your  hypocritical stance at adhering  to one set of laws and violating others. Thoreau is the one(King appropriated it for himself) who said that it was right and proper to ignore laws that you deem unjust. Unfortunately for you, those who disagree with war crimes laws can do the same.  There is no restriction on who can apply this form of logic.
Your feeble attempts to “subvert the system are going to achieve nothing you desire, save maybe Assange’s eventual freedom. Let’s be honest here if they wanted Assange dead he would be dead by now.  They’ll harass him in order to marginalize him. They really don’t need to arrest him. 

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