New accusations against Assange | United States

The United States Department of Justice yesterday announced 17 new charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, including anti-espionage laws. The United States accuses Assange of jeopardizing some of its sources with the publication in 2010 of some 750,000 military and diplomatic documents. The Australian journalist is serving a sentence of just over a year in prison in London for violating the conditions of his probation, after Ecuador withdrew him refugee status last month and authorized the British police to arrest him at his embbady. During his prison term, Assange also hopes to know if the British state will extradite him to the United States, where justice requires him to publish secret documents, or to Sweden. The Swedish prosecutor had filed the case for alleged rape while Assange was a refugee at the Ecuadorian Embbady in London on the grounds that he had no tools to advance . However, with his arrest, he decided to reopen the case and issued a warrant for arrest.