Frequently asked

The questions I get most often. Short answers where I can; links where you want the documents behind them.

Donating

Q. How do I donate?: A. Two ways. On the Support Me page you can send Solana directly to my wallet, or you can donate in your own currency through my GoFundMe. Both come to me.
Q. I don't use crypto. Can I still help?: A. Yes — the GoFundMe takes card, Apple Pay and bank transfer with no wallet required. Nothing goes through crypto on your end.
Q. Which crypto networks do you accept?: A. Only the Solana network. SOL, or SPL tokens such as USDC on Solana. Tokens sent from any other network (Bitcoin, Ethereum, anything else) to the Solana address will be lost.
Q. How do I know the wallet is really yours?: A. The address on FreeAssangeNow.com is the only one I use. If somebody sends you a different address by email, DM or social media and claims it is mine, it isn't. Treat it as a scam.
Q. Where does the money go?: A. To hosting this archive, research and verification, link preservation, extending the indexes, and the work I continue to do after my release. See the Support page for the breakdown.
Q. Is my donation tax-deductible?: A. Donations are voluntary gifts to me, not payment for goods or services. Check the rules where you live before treating them as tax-deductible.

Q. What exactly did the US charge you with?: A. 18 counts in the May 2019 superseding indictment. 17 of them under the 1917 Espionage Act. The maximum came to 175 years. The charges covered obtaining and publishing classified documents — publishing, not stealing. No publisher had ever been prosecuted under the Espionage Act before.
Q. What did you plead guilty to?: A. One count: conspiracy to obtain and disclose national defence information. I told the court I believed the First Amendment protected what I did. The judge sentenced me to the 62 months I had already served in Belmarsh. I walked out of court a free man.
Q. Why plead at all?: A. I had spent fourteen years in some form of detention and five years in a maximum-security prison. The appeal process would have taken more years. I chose freedom over unrealisable justice. The Council of Europe called that outcome what it was — a political prisoner's plea.
Q. Did the case set a precedent?: A. Not in the strict legal sense — no court ruled on the First Amendment question. But the US now has a conviction of a publisher under the Espionage Act in its back pocket. That shadow falls on every journalist who publishes classified material. The fight is not over.

Q. Were you ever charged in Sweden?: A. No. I was never charged. There was a preliminary investigation. Two of the three allegations lapsed under the statute of limitations in 2015. The remaining investigation was discontinued in 2017, briefly reopened in 2019, and finally dropped on 19 November 2019. In nine years I was never charged.
Q. Why did the Swedish case drag on?: A. Ask the Swedish Prosecution Authority. Twenty-three of twenty-five press releases from them in one period were on me. You can read their archive here: aklagare.se.
Q. Why didn't you just go to Sweden?: A. Because the United States was waiting on the other side. The 2019 indictments proved I was right. Sweden refused to guarantee that I would not be extradited onwards to the US. The UK Supreme Court lost me on the European arrest warrant question, so I asked Ecuador for asylum, and they gave it.

Q. What are you doing now?: A. Writing. Keeping this archive. Speaking where I can — the Council of Europe in October 2024, Cannes in May 2025, the pro-Palestine march on the Sydney Harbour Bridge in August 2025. I was gagged for fourteen years. I am catching up.
Q. Will there be more?: A. Watch this space.
Q. How do I follow you?: A. @AssangeArchive on X. The X icon in the top strip of every page.
Q. Press, interview, speaking requests?: A. Email contact@freeassangenow.com. I don't accept every request.

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