Julian Assange is fighting an attempt by the United States to extradite him to face charges on what it says was 'one of the largest compromises of classified information in the history of the United States'.
Julian Assange is fighting an attempt by the United States to extradite him to face charges on what it says was "one of the largest compromises of classified information in the history of the United States".
Later that year, WikiLeaks released hundreds of thousands of US military messages and cables, a leak that saw former US Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning jailed. Assange, 49, has always denied the allegations, saying they were part of a US plot to discredit him and eventually extradite him to the US, and the investigation was eventually dropped in 2017.over an arrest warrant issued in 2012.Following Assange's arrest, Swedish prosecutors reopened the investigation into the 2010 allegations, but it was discontinued again in November 2017, with prosecutors saying the passage of time meant there was not enough evidence to indict him.
The US says by releasing the documents and files Assange endangered lives, damaged national security and aided its adversaries. "It's what's called double criminality, in other words, whether the offences for which Assange is being sought in under US law are broadly being recognised under UK law," Professor Don Rothwell, from the Australian National University,Prosecutors have argued there is no doubt his actions would amount to offences under the UK's Official Secrets Act.
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