translated from Spanish: U.S. announces 17 new charges against Julian Assange

U.S. presented this Thursday (23.05.2019) 18 new charges, and Etween them one for espionage, against the founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, on who already weighed an accusation for conspiracy to infiltrate governmental computers by the American Justice, reported local media.
The new charges were presented on Thursday by a grand jury of the state of Virginia, which now accuses him in addition to espionage and publication of highly classified documents, which could be a sentence of up to 170 years, according to the newspaper the Washington Post.
The prosecution alleges that Assange was able to commit an act of espionage by collaborating with intelligence agents to obtain and distribute secret information, a conduct that the defendant’s defense has repeatedly justified claiming to be part of his work Journalistic. Julian Assange is not a journalist. Our department takes the role of journalists seriously in our democracy, “said U.S. Attorney General John Demers, in a statement.
The prosecution filed charges against Assange in April for conspiring with the soldier Chelsea Manning, who in 2010 leaked to WikiLeaks portal more than 700,000 classified documents, to try to decipher the access keys of government equipment with which to access Such information to hinder their possible identification.
Assange faces a possible five-year prison sentence for this first indictment.
In London custody
The activist is under arrest since last April 11, when the British authorities proceeded to arrest him when he was inside the Embassy of Ecuador in the United Kingdom, where he remained Asylee since 19 June 2012.
Ecuador ended Assange’s asylum after the founder of Wikileaks sued the Ecuadorian authorities after Quito imposed a protocol for coexistence at the embassy.
Since then, Assange is in the possession of the British judiciary, who has condemned him for violating precautionary measures in 2012, and waiting to be extradited well to the U.S., which requires him to spread hundreds of thousands of secret documents , or Sweden, for sexual assault on two women.

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