The US Justice Department unveiled 17 new criminal charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange accusing him of placing the US at risk of serious harm by publishing thousands of secret and classified documents
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is seen as he leaves a police station in London, Britain April 11, 2019.
Assange was initially charged with conspiring with Manning to gain access to a government computer as part of a 2010 leak by WikiLeaks of hundreds of thousands of US military reports about the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Assange is now fighting extradition to the United States, after Ecuador in April revoked his seven-year asylum in the country's London embassy. He was arrested that day, April 11, by British police as he left the embassy.
The decision to charge Assange with espionage crimes is notable, and unusual. Most cases involving the theft of classified information have targeted government employees, like Manning, and not the people who publish the information itself.
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