Julian Assange charged in US: WikiLeaks

Published Fri, Nov 16, 2018 · 05:05 AM

[WASHINGTON] WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who was behind a massive dump of classified US documents in 2010, has been charged in the United States, WikiLeaks said on Thursday night.

Prosecutors revealed the existence of the sealed indictment inadvertently in a court filing in an unrelated case, WikiLeaks said. The exact nature of the charges against Assange was not immediately known.

AFP

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