The Thursday ruling by Judge Howard Riddle at Belmarsh Magistrates court will determine whether Julian Assange – the founder of the contentious WikiLeaks site which leaked thousands of secret US diplomatic cables some time back – should be extradited to Sweden where he faces rape charges.

The most recent release of WikiLeaks related to Egypt or MENA is strong reaction to increasing Mubarek protests. In November 2008, an out of ordinary information was revealed by the cable, which reported that in 2007, the State Department had a talk with YouTube in order to transcribe the videos posted by Egyptian bloggers which showed abuses in Egypt.

The London police's investigation of the pro-WikiLeaks `Anonymous' group of hackers has led to the arrest of five men, including three teenagers, who supposedly launched cyber-attacks on companies that banned the whistle-blower WikiLeaks site after its release of thousands of classified US cables.

The government of the US is slowly but steadily marching toward prosecuting WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and in recent weeks that have picked up momentum .The Justice Department has subpoenaed the Twitter account information of WikiLeaks and several of its supporters as part of its "ongoing criminal investigation."

WikiLeaks' infamous saga, involving the leak of hundreds of thousands of secret US cables, has cost OHB-System's CEO Berry Smutny his job. The Bremen-based OHB-System is one of Germany's most prominent space companies; and is part of the group that will develop Galileo's first 14 operational spacecraft.

WikiLeaks to be charged with Espionage as investigation by the Justice department shows that the website is posting classified news about the govt. and the armed forces and they also suspect that the website has got ties with the Twitter Inc. through which they access to personal data of the users which they publish in their website.

In a recent conversation with Bloomberg News, Mark Stephens, an attorney representing the contentious secret-spilling website WikiLeaks, said that the US subpoena on Twitter - asking the microblogging company to hand over data pertaining to WikiLeaks and some of its prominent supporters - amounts to harassment.

According to a copy of a subpoena made public on Friday, the prosecutors who have initiated criminal investigation against the controversial whistle-blowing site WikiLeaks have gone to the court to demand that the private conversations, billing addresses, and other details of people associated with the organization, including its founder, Julian Assange.

In a revelation about the total breakdown of the reach of the WikiLeaks App, which was recently removed from Apple’s App Store, its developer Igor Barinov said that the app witnessed 4443 downloads and $5,840.14 in profit.

The pro-WikiLeaks activists continued what is being described as their “global cyberwar” over the weekend, targeting companies that stopped doing business with the whistle-blowing site after its massive leak of US diplomatic cables late last month.