Julian Assange has filed a legal complaint seeking to block Nobel Peace Prize funds from being paid to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado over her support for US military actions.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Wednesday filed a complaint against the Nobel Foundation to stop its planned payouts to Venezuelan opposition leader and 2025 Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado, who has backed US President Donald Trump’s campaign of military aggression against her own country.

According to a press release that WikiLeaks  posted to X, Assange’s lawsuit seeks to block Machado from obtaining over USD $1 million she’s due to receive from the Nobel Foundation as winner of this year’s Peace Prize.

The complaint notes that Alfred Nobel’s will states that the Peace Prize named after him should only be awarded to those who have “conferred the........

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