US charges against arrested Assange revealed
The Wikileaks founder has been accused of taking part in a hacking conspiracy with ex-US Army analyst Chelsea Manning to disclose classified US government material
The US has accused WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange of taking part in a hacking conspiracy with ex-US Army analyst Chelsea Manning to disclose classified government material.
In an indictment unsealed just hours after Assange’s arrest in London, the US accused him of assisting Manning in “hacking a password stored on United States Department of Defense computers”. Assange’s anti-secrecy organisation published the cables starting in 2010.
Assange’s arrest came after Ecuador expelled him from ...