WikiLeaks’ Assange arrested in London after U.S. extradition request
British police arrested WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange at the Ecuadorian embassy in London on Thursday, a move they made in response to a U.S. extradition request on charges that he aided efforts to hack classified material on U.S. government computers in 2010.revealed Thursday by the Justice Department and dated March 6, 2018, alleges Assange aided former U.S. intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning with "cracking a password stored on U.S.
Assange has been under U.S. Justice Department scrutiny for years for WikiLeaks’ role in publishing thousands of government secrets.Sign Up The ACLU echoed this concern in a statement warning against charging Assange for simply publishing government secrets. In a statement Thursday, the U.K.’s Home Office confirmed Assange’s arrest was related to an extradition request from the U.S., noting that “he is accused in the United States of America of computer related offences.”
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