Turns out when governments toss around the words "spy" and "espionage" freely and without regard to their actual definitions they can get away with things like this.

> Or can they put someone in permanent solitary confinement without giving any reason at all in Britain?

Well, who is gong to stop them?

Wikileaks has published things about Russia: https://wikileaks.org/spyfiles/russia/

There are a lot of countries they have never published anything on. They have a smaller number of large leaks, so that is not necessarily out of the ordinary.

I think it is credible that Wikileaks were provided some documents from Russian state-sanctioned actors, who knew Wikileaks would publish them, and that the state-sanctioned actors did so to serve Russian interests. But the claim that Wikileaks as a whole is biased towards Russia doesn't seem likely.

Could the reason be that no whistleblower came forward with files from Russia to Wikileaks? You're trying to make a point but missing the obvious.

Besides. The US and Europe and so have fairly free media, so the Wikileaks revelations reached a wide audience. Russia does not have free media, so if there were any leaks like it, it wouldn't reach the Russians as much.

I don’t understand your point. One should get away with a crime because others are getting away with it? Even if Julian Assange was a Russian spy (which I highly doubt), what difference does it make regarding the crimes he exposed?

You can’t diminish facts depending on who is telling them - as long as these are facts.

did he raid the fsb servers or the nsa? maybe it's because of the source?

Russia doesn't need much external help in fumbling their data lol