The new charges put more pressure on Mr Assange, whom the U.S. is trying to extradite from the UK., and could have broad implications for First Amendment free-press protections in the US.
The charges follow Mr Assange’s April arrest by British authorities. He was forcibly removed from the Ecuadorean Embassy in London as the U.S. unsealed a 2018 indictment charging him with conspiring to hack a military computer. Mr Assange had been living under asylum in the embassy for nearly seven years.
Thursday’s indictment didn’t contain substantially new information about Mr Assange’s effort to obtain classified government secrets from a former army-intelligence analyst that wasn’t already revealed in April’s charges or the analyst’s 2013 court-martial. Journalists often receive sensitive government information, and sometimes work with government agencies to delay publication or withhold specific details if the disclosures could disrupt major operations.
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