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WikiLeaks: WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange: TORONTO - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange may be holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, but he's very present at the Toronto International Film Festival. , according to Winnipeg Free Press. That was the opinion Assange dished out on the film in a video link in January in which he waved a supposed copy of the film's script. He has also called it the "anti-WikiLeaks movie." FILE - This is a Thursday, Dec. 20, 2012. file photo of Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks as he speaks to the media and members of the public from a balcony at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. Assange has asked Swedish police to investigate what happened to a suitcase he suspects was stolen from him when he traveled from Sweden to Germany in 2010. Assange's lawyer, Per Samuelson, says he filed a criminal complaint with an affidavit by Assange to police at Stockholm's Arlanda Airport on Tuesday Sept. 3, 2013. AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File Opening this year's festival on Thursday was the premiere of Bill Condon's dramatization of Assange and WikiLeaks, "The Fifth Estate" a film with which Assange refused to co-operate. It's the only movie at Toronto that has the distinction of being called "a massive propaganda attack" by its primary subject. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.