Jeremy Hammond is an anarchist hacker who was arrested and imprisoned for sending thousands of emails from intelligence firm Stratfor to WikiLeaks, who then published the files exposing widespread corruption and illegality in 2012.
Arrested in 2012 and sentenced in 2013 to 10 years in prison, Hammond was finally in November 2020. While in prison he was held in civil contempt for refusing to testify to a grand jury against indicted WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange in 2019.
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Imprisoned Activist Jeremy Hammond Called Against His Will to Testify Before Federal Grand Jury in the EDVAVirginia Grand Jury Believed to be the Same Probe that Previously Called on Chelsea Manning, David House
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Documents: FBI put Jeremy Hammond on a secret terrorist watchlistThe Daily Dot reports on confidential records showing Jeremy Hammond on a federal terrorist watchlist, further revealing the government’s equation of truthtelling with terrorism
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Jeremy Hammond was in solitary confinement: here is what we knowThe imprisoned alleged source was in segregated housing, which has devastating psychological effects, for nearly a fortnight
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Press release: Jeremy Hammond announced as second Courage beneficiaryThe imprisoned hacktivist becomes Courage’s second beneficiary, after Edward Snowden