WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange should face espionage charges in the United States because he put innocent lives at risk and went beyond journalism in his bid to solicit, steal and indiscriminately publish classified U.S. government documents, lawyers for the American government argued Wednesday.
The lawyers spoke before Britain’s High Court in response to a last-ditch bid by Assange’s defence team to stop his extradition from the United Kingdom to the U.S.
Assange’s lawyers are asking the High Court to grant him a new appeal — his last roll of the legal dice in a saga that has kept him in a British
