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| Julian Assange: US files 17 new charges against Wikileaks co-founder | |
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| The US justice department has filed 17 new charges against Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange, who is facing extradition from the UK. | |
| The latest charges accuse him of receiving and unlawfully publishing the names of classified sources. | |
| He was previously charged last month on one count of conspiring with ex-intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning to gain access to the Pentagon network. | |
| Assange is serving a jail sentence in the UK for breaching bail conditions. | |
| The 47-year-old was found guilty last month after his arrest at the Ecuadorian Embassy, where he had sought refuge since 2012 over sexual assault allegations in Sweden. He denies any wrongdoing. | |
| The new indictment says Assange conspired with Manning in order to obtain and disclose secret US files and also exposed and endangered confidential sources in the Middle East and China. | |
| Wikileaks hit back after the announcement, tweeting: "This is madness. It is the end of national security journalism and the first amendment." | |
| Manning was found guilty in 2013 of charges including espionage for leaking secret military files to Wikileaks, but her sentence was commuted. | |
| She is currently back in jail after refusing to testify. |