New US charges against Julian Assange could spell decades behind bars

By Jon Swaine in New York

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The WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange after his arrest in London last month. He faces a maximum sentence of 175 years in prison if convicted of all the US charges.

Julian Assange could face decades in a US prison after being charged with violating the Espionage Act by publishing classified information through WikiLeaks.

Prosecutors announced 17 additional charges against Assange for publishing hundreds of thousands of secret diplomatic cables and files on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

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Opinion:

How could someone who is not a US citizen be held accountable for their actions outside of the US? Oh that's right, the US is the world's largest terrorist organization. How silly of me to forget.

Don't stop where the ink does.