Digital art auction raises more than $52 million for WikiLeaks’ Assange
The Hindu
Assange collaborated with a crypto artist known as Pak to sell a collection of NFTs called Censored in an online auction to raise funds to support his case.
An online auction of digital art raised more than $52 million worth of cryptocurrency to help fund WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's legal defence on Wednesday, the winning bid coming from a group of supporters who had pooled their money.
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Australian-born Assange is battling extradition from Britain to the United States where the authorities want him to face trial on 18 criminal charges including breaking a spying law, after WikiLeaks began to publish thousands of secret classified files and diplomatic cables in 2010.
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