WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange Charged With Computer Hacking Conspiracy
Posted on AllSides April 11th, 2019
From The Center
U.S. authorities accuse Assange of conspiring with former Army intelligence officer Chelsea Manning
LONDON—British police arrested WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in London on a U.S. extradition request, a dramatic escalation in Washington’s long-running efforts to prosecute a man it accuses of running a foreign “hostile intelligence service.”
British police arrested Mr. Assange on Thursday after Ecuador withdrew asylum protection for him. Authorities in the U.S. accuse him of publishing classified material dating back nearly a decade, and more recently, material allegedly stolen by Russian government hackers at the height of...
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