Breaking: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been indicted on a U.S. charge alleging a computer hacking conspiracy to access a classified U.S. government computer, the Justice Department announced shortly after he was arrested by British police.
Julian Assange gestures to the media from a police vehicle on his arrival at Westminster Magistrates court on Thursday in London.
Prosecutors accused Assange of working with Chelsea Manning, a U.S. Army intelligence analyst at the time, to crack a password and access classified materials that were then leaked. The goal, prosecutors said, was to make it more difficult to track the source of the leaked information.The case is being handled by the U.S. attorney’s office in the Eastern District of Virginia.
Assange became notorious for his role in releasing classified U.S. documents about the country’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Ruptly, a news service of Russia Today, captured video of Assange being hauled from the embassy building. He had a full beard and gray hair pulled back in a bun, and he appeared to be arguing with the police as they loaded him into the police van.
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