Julian Assange

Julian Assange is a person from Australia who started something called WikiLeaks. Think of it like a giant online bulletin board where secret documents can be shared. In 2010, WikiLeaks shared some very important and surprising information from the U.S. military.

This made Julian Assange famous all around the world! He has won many awards for his work in sharing information and for standing up for people's rights.

Julian was born in Australia and moved around a lot when he was a kid. When he was a teenager, his family settled in a big city called Melbourne. Even when he was young, he was really good with computers and was part of a group of people who liked to explore how computers worked.

He even got into a little bit of trouble for hacking once, but he learned a lot from it and went on to do bigger things.

One of the most famous things WikiLeaks did was share videos and papers about wars. One video showed an airplane bombing in a place called Baghdad, and it looked like something bad might have happened. They also shared secret notes from soldiers fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq. It was like reading a secret diary from the army! This information helped people understand what was really going on.

After sharing all this information, Julian Assange had to be very careful. He lived in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London for many years to stay safe. It was like living in a special house where he couldn't leave. Eventually, he was arrested and spent time in prison. But his story continued, and he eventually went back to Australia, his home country.