China News Service, June 25, according to comprehensive foreign media news, on the 24th local time, the United States Department of Justice issued a new indictment showing that WikiLeaks founder Assange was accused of colluding with hackers associated with the "Anonymous" organization. Trying to obtain government secrets. In addition, the indictment alleges that Assange tried to recruit hackers to provide information for his website.
Data figure: Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks.
It is reported that compared with the 18 counts in the first indictment in May 2019, this indictment did not add new criminal charges. But the prosecutor said the allegations underlined Assange’s attempts to obtain and publish confidential information and formed the basis of the criminal charges he faced.
In addition to accusing Assange of recruiting hackers, the indictment also claimed that it obtained and published emails stolen from American intelligence consulting companies by the "Anonymous" organization and hackers associated with LulzSec.
According to the news, "The Federal Grand Jury read out the second indictment against Julian Assange today, accusing him of being involved in one of the largest secret information theft cases in American history and committing crimes."
The source said, "The scale of the computer theft conspiracy previously accused of Assange in this document has expanded."
Data Map: On February 24th, local time, people in the San Francisco Bay Area met outside the British Consulate General in San Francisco and demanded the release of Julian Assange, founder of the "WikiLeaks" website. China News Service reporter Liu Guanguan
Assange created the "Wiki Secret" website in 2006. The website exposed a large number of confidential US government documents on the Afghanistan and Iraq wars in 2010. In November of the same year, the Swedish Procuratorate initiated a criminal investigation into Assange on the grounds of alleged rape.
Assange was in the United Kingdom at the time, but was arrested by the British police and refused to plead guilty. On April 11, 2019, the Ecuadorian government withdrew its asylum from Assange, and Assange was immediately arrested by the British police.
Currently, the United States is seeking to extradite Assange. On February 24, 2020, a local court in London, UK, agreed to extradite Assange for trial. The American lawyer who requested extradition charged Assange with more than ten counts. Assange's lawyer believes that once Assange is convicted, he will face a maximum sentence of 175 years.