Michael Moore, the American filmmaker, said on his official website on Tuesday that he has offered $20,000 to Julian Assange to help him post bail.
Assange is still being held in London after Swedish authorities appealed his bail grant of £200,000 (US$313,000) in court today. The High Court will reconvene by Thursday with a more senior judge to decide whether to overturn the bail decision.
Activist filmmaker Moore saw Assange's arrest as a great injustice. He said "Openness, transparency—these are among the few weapons the citizenry has to protect itself from the powerful and the corrupt … and that is the best thing that WikiLeaks has done."
Moore also says that he is offering his website, servers, domain names, and anything else he could "do to keep WikiLeaks alive and thriving".
Assange will be represented by high-profile human rights lawyer and former U.N. appeals judge, Geoffrey Robertson.
Other high-profile supporters as listed by the Daily Mail include socialite Jemima Khan, novelist Tariq Ali, campaigner Bianca Jagger and filmmakers Ken Loach and John Pilger.
Mark Stephens, Assange’s British lawyer, told Sky News today that half of the bail has already been collected. It has to be collected in cash due to WikiLeaks’s continuing dispute with PayPal, MasterCard and Visa.
