傳維基解密創始人阿桑奇將參選澳大利亞參議員

The founder and leader of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, plans to run for a seat in Australia's upper house of parliament, the anti-secrecy group announced on Twitter yesterday.
維基解密昨日在推特上宣佈，該組織創始人和領導者朱利安·阿桑奇打算競選澳大利亞上議院參議員。

Australian-born Assange, 40, is currently under house arrest in Britain and fighting extradition to Sweden for questioning over alleged sex crimes.
40歲的阿桑奇出生於澳大利亞，目前在英國被拘押，並面臨瑞典性騷擾的指控。

‘We have discovered that it is possible for Julian Assange to run for the Australian Senate while detained. Julian has decided to run,’ WikiLeaks tweeted.
維基解密推特上說道：“我們發現即使阿桑奇目前被扣留也還是有機會參與競選的，阿桑奇也決定試一試。”

The earliest Senate election would not be until late 2013. The group also tweeted that it plans to field a candidate to run against Prime Minister Julia Gillard in her home seat of Lalor in Victoria.
最快的參議院選舉將於2013年下半年開始。該組織宣佈將派出一位候選人與現任澳大利亞總理茱莉亞·吉拉德在維多利亞州拉洛選區展開選票競爭。

The Swedish warrant stems from Assange's encounters in August 2010 with two women who were then WikiLeaks volunteers. They accuse him of sexual assault. He says they consented.
瑞典出示證據證明阿桑奇於2010年8月與兩位當時的維基解密女性發生關係，因此控告他性侵犯。而後者則宣稱她們是自願的。

Assange burst into the public consciousness in April 2010 when WikiLeaks released Collateral Murder - video footage of a US air crew shooting Iraqi civilians in 2007.
2010年4月維基解密公佈了一段2007年巴格達空襲時，伊拉克平民遭美國軍方殺害的錄像，阿桑奇由此進入公衆視野。

The whistleblower website, which claimed a database of 1.2 million documents within a year of its 2006 launch, regularly hit the headlines in 2010 with a series of leaks.
這個泄密網站宣稱自2006年建立後的一年時間裏就蒐集了120萬份資料。在2010年該網站經常以曝光系列祕密文件上新聞頭條。

The US Embassy cables, Afghanistan war logs and Iraq war logs, which were drip-fed to the media in 2010, helped raise the profile of Assange.
美國使館密電、阿富汗戰爭日記和伊拉克戰爭日記在2010年的陸續曝光讓阿桑奇獲得極大關注。

He recently revealed that the site is at risk of closure and is suspending its publishing operations to concentrate on fighting a financial blockade and raising new funds.
阿桑奇近期曾透露該網站面臨關閉的危險，故延緩祕密曝光的進程轉而專注於打破經濟封鎖，尋求資金支援。

The stricken website is running on cash reserves after an 'arbitrary and unlawful financial blockade' was imposed by Bank of America, Visa, MasterCard, PayPal and Western union last December, said Assange.
去年12月阿桑奇表示，在經受美國銀行、維薩卡、萬事達卡、Paypal和西聯匯款的任意非法經濟封鎖後，該網站只能依靠現金儲蓄運營。