DHAKA: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says the group will publish about one million documents related to the US presidential election and three governments in coming weeks, but denied the release was aimed at damaging Hillary Clinton.

Assange, speaking via a video link on Tuesday, said the documents would be made public before the end of the year, starting with an initial batch in the coming week, Al Jazeera publishes this report on Wednesday (October 5).

Assange, 45, who remains at the Ecuadorian embassy in London where he sought refuge in 2012 to avoid possible extradition to Sweden, said the election material was “significant” and would come out before the November 8 vote.

He criticized Clinton, the Democratic presidential candidate, for demonizing WikiLeaks’ work after a spate of releases related to the Democratic National Committee.

“The material that WikiLeaks is going to publish before the end of the year is of ... a very significant moment in different directions, affecting three powerful organizations in three different states as well as ... the US election process,” he said via a video link at an event in Berlin, marking the group’s 10th anniversary.

He said the material would focus on war, weapons, oil, mass surveillance, the technology giant Google and the US election, but declined to give any details.

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