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

Julian Assange was arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. Pic: Getty

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 ...