China News Service, August 16. According to Agence France-Presse, on the 15th local time, the lawyer of "WikiLeaks" founder Assange filed a lawsuit against the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and its former director Pompeo, accusing the CIA of recording recorded their conversations with Assange and copied data from their phones and computers.
Data map: Assange, founder of WikiLeaks.
Assange's lawyer who filed the lawsuit and the two journalists who joined the lawsuit are reportedly Americans, and they allege that the CIA's move violated U.S. constitutional protections for them.
They had visited Assange when he was receiving political asylum at the Ecuadorian embassy in London.
The CIA worked with a security firm contracted by the Ecuadorian embassy in London to spy on Assange, Assange's lawyers, journalists and others he met, these people said.
Assange was arrested and sentenced to prison in the United Kingdom in 2019, and then the United States requested his extradition on the grounds that "WikiLeaks" released classified documents related to the United States and endangered the lives of others.
The United Kingdom approved the extradition in June this year, and Assange subsequently appealed the extradition to the United States.
Currently, he is facing extradition.
Lawyers for the plaintiffs in the lawsuit brought by Mr. Assange's lawyers said the surveillance of Mr. Assange's lawyers meant that Assange's right to a fair trial was "tainted, if not undermined."
"These blatantly unconstitutional actions should be punished, even dropped, or extradition requests withdrawn," he said.