Mark Stephens (solicitor) be released, noting that anonymity orders had become "deeply ingrained" in court cases in the UK. After the ruling Stephens commented, "No court henceforth should grant an anonymity order in a significant case unless it is satisfied that the litigant, if identified, would be in serious danger of physical attack." Towards the end of 2010, Stephens was invited by the Jamaican Government to review that country's libel laws and appear before a Parliamentary Select Committee. Shortly after his return Stephens began to defend the founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, against extradition to Sweden, where allegations had been made against Assange.
Julian Assange WikiLeaks emailed the GRU via an intermediary seeking the DNC material and that the GRU sent the documents to Wikileaks in mid-July 2016 as an encrypted attachment. Assange is an advocate of information transparency and market libertarianism. He has written a few short pieces, including "State and terrorist conspiracies" (2006), "Conspiracy as governance" (2006), "The hidden curse of Thomas Paine" (2008), "What's new about WikiLeaks?" (2011), and the foreword to "Cypherpunks" (2012). He also contributed research to Suelette Dreyfus's "Underground" (1997), and received a co-writer credit for the Calle 13 song "Multi_Viral" (2013). "Cypherpunks" is primarily a transcript of the