In 2012 relations came under strain when Julian Assange, founder of the Wikileaks website, entered the Ecuadorian embassy in London and sought asylum ; Assange had recently lost a legal case against his extradition to Sweden on charges of sexual assault and rape, but when within the embassy he was on diplomatic territory and beyond the reach of the British police.

In November 2010, it was revealed that over a quarter million diplomatic cables between the Department of State and US embassies around the world were leaked to Wikileaks, which has slowly started releasing the cables to the public.

In 2010, Bradley Manning, an Army private who allegedly leaked information including the United States diplomatic cables leak to Julian Assange and Wikileaks, was charged under the Espionage Act.

Wikileaks also applies this technique in cooperation with volunteer servers worldwide in response to its account termination at Amazon. com as well as heavy cyber attack upon its server after its controversial publication of secret United States diplomatic cables around the world in order to make it " impossible to ever fully remove Wikileaks from the Internet ".

US diplomatic cables that were leaked by Wikileaks in 2010 corroborate the massive scale of corruption that Rahmon and his family are involved in.

These flights were the topic of acrimonious diplomatic cables between British officials and the American embassy, later leaked by Wikileaks, with David Miliband saying that " policymakers needed to get control of the military ".

In 2011, Wikileaks published diplomatic cables which attributed controversial comments regarding Islam to Lee kuan Yew, the " Mentor " Minister of Singapore's government.

On 19th May, 2011, Dawn Media Group signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Julian Assange, founder of Wikileaks, for the exclusive first use in Pakistan of all the secret US diplomatic cables related to political and other developments in the country.

Released in a Wikileaks diplomatic cable, Volodymyr Horbulin, one of Ukraine's most respected policy strategists and former presidential advisor, told the U. S. Ambassador to Ukraine in 2006 that the Party of Regions, which " enjoyed deep pockets, being largely financed by billionaire Donetsk boss Rinat Akhmetov ” is partly composed of “ pure criminals " and " criminal and anti-democracy figures.

It has a partnership with Wikileaks to publish the United States diplomatic cables in the country, alongside O Globo.

* The United States diplomatic cables leak of November 2010 in which the organisation Wikileaks began releasing details of 251, 287 US diplomatic cables.

Several leaked U. S. diplomatic cables from Wikileaks have alleged Zhou's involvement in Beijing's cyber attack against Google, though the claim's veracity has been questioned.

In September 2011, the contents of a United States diplomatic telegram were revealed via Wikileaks, stating that Hedva Radovanitz, then Assistant Director of NIF Israel, said " she believed that in 100 years Israel would be majority Arab and that the disappearance of a Jewish state would not be the tragedy that Israelis fear since it would become more democratic.

According to a 2009 U. S. State Department communication by Hillary Clinton, United States Secretary of State, ( disclosed as part of the Wikileaks U. S. ' cables leaks ' controversy in 2010 ) " donors in Saudi Arabia constitute the most significant source of funding to Sunni terrorist groups worldwide ".

According to Wikileaks cables released in 2011, Bouterse was active in the drug trade till 2006.

In 2011, Wikileaks published a few cables in which the American embassy confirmed Bouterse's involvement, together with that of top Guyanese criminal Roger Khan, in the drugs trade.

The opposition in the Surinamese parliament demanded that President Bouterse gave an explanation for the reports in the cables, but President Bouterse said that he will not respond to " rumours from Wikileaks ".

Wikileaks cables released in 2011 reveal that Bouterse was involved in drug-trafficking till 2006.

According to the US Embassy cables released by Wikileaks, Peter Tatchell informed the US Embassy about his injuries at the hands of neo-Nazis at the 2007 Moscow Gay Pride Parade.

Wikileaks cables from Ireland to the US revealed, that US diplomats in Ireland reported that the nickname ' BIFFO ' applied " especially well " to former Taoiseach Brian Cowen, as described in leaked US embassy dispatches.

These conversations were released as part of the Wikileaks cables in 2010.

Wikileaks ' releases of cables from the U. S. Embassy, Pakistan, revealed the presence of a detachment of SOCOM ( or possibly United States Army Special Operations Command ) referred to as SOC ( FWD )- PAK ( 09ISLAMABAD2449, 9 August 2010 ).

Regarding Wikileaks editor Julian Assange, it was alleged that Bishop had tweeted in December 2010 that " Mr Assange should be aggressively interrogated until he reveals the location of the stolen cables, so they can be retrieved.

A connection has been made by opponents of the decision with Wikileaks cables suggesting the US and UK governments wanted to end Press TV's broadcasting licence in response to the Iranian government's jamming of the BBC Persian Service and the Voice of America.

On Sept 4th 2011, Wikileaks revealed some sensational cables related to the then resignation of the TRS members for the formation of a separate state.

In 2011, Wikileaks cables were released containing information about a meeting of Broz with members of the American embassy in Belgrade.

Diplomatic cables exposed in 2010 by Wikileaks suggest that the United States government including the American ambassador, worked with parts of the Spanish government to subvert the Spanish judicial process to control and ultimately stymie and thwart the investigation.

Relations between the two nations have been highlighted following Julian Assange's bid to seek political asylum in the Ecuadorian embassy in London following repeated claims that the US government was pursuing his extradition due to his work with Wikileaks.

There have been reports that Wikileaks has documents proving Carl Bildt is a US spy, with various sources claiming Wikileaks is attempting blackmail.

In 2010, Patriot responded to Wikileaks ' claim to have revealed Hovind's dissertation, writing that the Wikileaks file was not the " finished " product, but because they do not " retain ownership to student thesis ’ or dissertations, as is commonly practiced by many schools ", they " cannot release student work to the public ".

Kaupthing's lawyers have threatened Wikileaks with legal action, citing banking privacy laws.

There have only been four recipients of this award in the foundation's fourteen-year history: South African statesman Nelson Mandela, 14th Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso, Japanese Buddhist leader Daisaku Ikeda, and Wikileaks publisher Julian Assange.

In the Iraq War, 36 photographers and camera operators have been abducted or killed during the conflict from 2003-2009 Several have been killed by US fire ; two Iraqi journalists working for Reuters were notably strafed by a helicopter during the July 12, 2007 Baghdad airstrike, yielding a scandal when Wikileaks published the video of the gun camera.

The U. S. Ambassador in Italy, Ronald Spogli, informed Washington in a confidential cable disclosed by Wikileaks on how Berlusconi " constantly refuses strategic advice of his foreign minister, is demoralized, without resources and increasingly irrelevant.

Recent revelations by Wikileaks provide that " it is a badly kept secret " that there has been an ongoing process of armaments purchases on behalf of the Southern Sudanese government by the Kenyan government.

While the Yemeni government initially took responsibility, photographs of American components and a Wikileaks cable suggest that it was carried out by the United States.

The Wikileaks data reveals that the US Embassy in Seoul described Kim as " South Korea's first left-wing president " to the American government on his day of death.

On August 30, 2011, Wikileaks exposed reports sent by the United States Embassy in Manila that contain detail that the Libyan government under Muammar Gaddafi allegedly contributed USD 20, 000 to the presidential campaign of Ramos in 1992.

To date Investcorp has been seen as politically neutral ; however, their portfolio company, Moneybookers, ended its relationship with Wikileaks in August 2010 as a direct result of U. S. government pressure.

In December 2010 Beyer attracted public attention when it was reported that he had warned the Swiss government against offering asylum to Wikileaks publisher Julian Assange.

Recent speakers include academic Richard Dawkins, former British Prime Minister John Major, former President of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf, comedian Dara Ó Briain, civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, Olympic legend Lord Coe, violinist and songwriter Diana Yukawa, actor Sir Ian McKellen and Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.