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"Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks who is currently holed up in the Ecuador embassy in London, has seen his complaint against a More4 documentary rejected today by Ofcom.  Assange contacted the media regulator to object to True Stories: WikiLeaks: Secrets and Lies, which aired on digital channel More4 on November 29, 2011. He complained that he was treated &amp;quot;unjustly and unfairly&amp;quot; in the programme, and portrayed as &amp;quot;anti-American&amp;quot; and a &amp;quot;hacker&amp;quot; rather than a journalist or publisher. The Australian said that his privacy had been &amp;quot;unwarrantably infringed&amp;quot; by the documentary team, including allegedly unjustified use of video footage of him dancing in a nightclub in Iceland. However, the watchdog decided not to uphold his complaint in a lengthy ruling today (September 10).  It noted that Assange had provided his informed consent to appear in the programme, and the material facts were presented in a way that was fair to him.   Ofcom told Assange that he did not have a legitimate expectation of privacy in relation to the nightclub footage in Iceland, as it had been widely distributed over the internet. True Stories: WikiLeaks: Secrets and Lies dealt with the history of WikiLeaks, the source of &amp;quot;the biggest leak of secrets in history&amp;quot;. The website sprung to fame after publishing highly secret documents, including thousands of confidential US diplomatic cables. The programme featured contributions from Assange, along with former employees of WikiLeaks and people who had come into contact with the operation or been affected by the material it published.  Interview footage also included David Leigh, the investigations editor at The Guardian newspaper, who first met Assange at a conference for journalists in Norway in March 2010. Assange said on the programme that he was in &amp;quot;a precarious position&amp;quot; in late July 2010, and so gave a copy of a password to Leigh for &amp;quot;safe-keeping&amp;quot; that would allow access to 250,000 diplomatic cables.  It was while reviewing this material that Leigh was contacted by Nick Davies, a special correspondent at The Guardian, who informed him that Assange had been arrested on suspicion of rape.   Davies expressed his disbelief at the allegations and said that he had called the WikiLeaks co-ordinator Donald Bostrom, who told him: &amp;quot;I am sorry to tell you it&amp;#039;s true&amp;quot;.  Footage of Assange dancing in a nightclub in Iceland was then shown accompanied by Leigh stating that Mr Assange had &amp;quot;upset these two women [in Sweden] by his incontinent sexual behaviour which had involved, it would appear, jumping on them and not using a condom even though they had very much wanted him to&amp;quot;. Davies remarked that he found it &amp;quot;distressing&amp;quot; that Mr Assange was suggesting that the rape allegations were &amp;quot;some kind of American dirty trick&amp;quot; because &amp;quot;the guy [Mr Assange] is supposed to stand for truth and that wasn&amp;#039;t true&amp;quot;. Assange objected to the use of the nightclub video, stating that he had no idea how the programme producer had sourced the footage and could not understand why it was relevant.  But Ofcom dismissed the complaint, saying: &amp;quot;Ofcom did not consider that Mr Assange had a legitimate expectation of privacy in relation to the nightclub footage and it was therefore not necessary to go on to consider whether the use of that footage was warranted. &amp;quot;Accordingly, Ofcom&amp;#039;s decision is that Mr Assange&amp;#039;s complaints of unjust or unfair treatment and of unwarranted infringement of privacy in the programme as broadcast should not be upheld.&amp;quot; Assange is currently fighting extradition to Sweden, where authorities want to question him over the sexual assault and rape allegations. He denies any wrongdoing and has been granted political asylum by Ecuador.  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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