10.20am: Good morning. Welcome to the Wikiblog.

• Julian Assange the Movie – yes, so soon. Producers Barry Josephson and Michelle Krumm have teamed up to option the film rights to yet-to-be-published Assange biography The Most Dangerous Man in the World, so says the Hollywood Reporter. Our film editor IM'd me to say: "What I like is that it's being made by the team behind Disney fairy tale romance Enchanted."

• Defence lawyers for five former Guantanamo detainees have used WikiLeaks-published cables in court to argue for their acquittal. As the trial of the five French nationals opened yesterday, lawyers argued that it was inappropriate for French investigators to have discussed the ex-inmates' cases with US authorities - as the leaked cables show they did.

• NPR, the US public service radio network, finds support for Assange in Australia (you can probably also find it in America too).

• Here is a link to yesterday's Wikiblog, including Dutch fears over "their Falklands" and You ask, we search requests on an arrested Cambodian drugs tsar and the 'special tragedy - as US diplomats saw it - of Botswana's San bushmen.

11.10am: The Moscow Times, an English-language publication, has a piece on RuLeaks.net - also known as Russian WikiLeaks. The site attracted some attention this week when it posted alleged photographs of Vladimir Putin's $1bn Black Sea palace.

The web site, also available at викислив.рф, was launched last month to translate and mirror publications by the original WikiLeaks, but it quickly switched to original content. The project differs from the handful of other Russian whistle-blowing sites by apparently not following a political agenda and focusing on original leaks, not media reprints. But analysts said it remains to be seen whether the site can keep up with the pace it has set for itself

1.20pm: Survival International has said the cable we published yesterday on the plight of the San bushmen of Botswana "is incredibly revealing and extremely condemning of the Botswana government treatment of the bushmen."

1.50pm: Bradley Manning's lawyer is accusing authorities at the military jail where the 23-year-old US army private is held of using suicide watch as a form of punishment. Manning was placed on suicide watch for two days this week when he was stripped to his underwear, had his glasses taken away and was forced to stay in his cell.

His lawyer, David Coombs, said this had been against the recommendation of the jail's forensic psychiatrist. Authorities at the jail said Manning was put on suicide watch "based on input from more than one person" – a group that included medical professionals, mental health professionals and the marine guards who watch detainees.

Manning was taken off suicide watch yesterday.

2.05pm: The link at 1.50pm also notes that a petition organised by the FireDogLake blog will be handed to authorities at Manning's jail tomorrow.

3.10pm: Die Welt (which got access to the cables through Aftenposten) has a story about an upsurge in heroin from Iran. Seizures of the drug "ready for market" in Azerbaijan - a transit route to Europe - have risen from 20kg in 2006 to 59,000kg in the first quarter of 2009, the cable (in English) quotes an officer of the UN Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC) who says that 95% comes from Iran.

According to the UNODC officer, the large majority of heroin seized in Azerbaijan is "ready for market," with much being processed in Iranian laboratories: about 85 percent enters Azerbaijan from Iran by land, and the rest by sea routes. He described Azerbaijani and Iranian cooperation in combating this trade as "only superficial." A new regional information-sharing center based in Kazakhstan may be a bright light in the regional anti-narcotics picture, but Iran has reportedly rebuffed proposals that it join the current six-nation group (Central Asian countries plus Azerbaijan)

4.15pm: Manning's lawyer has filed a compaint about his client's treatment in military jail (see 1.50pm).

4.35pm: Rudolf Elmer will be held in custody over the weekend after police questioning over two CDs he gave Assange that he said contained the offshore Swiss bank account details of 2,000 individuals and companies. In a separate case, Elmer received an eight month suspended sentence on Wednesday for breaking Swiss banking secrecy laws and threatening an employee at the Julius Baer bank, where he formerly worked.

5.30pm: That's it for this week. Back Monday.