Photo by Jack Taylor/Getty ImagesJulian Assange was arrested by London police today as the U.S. charged the Wikileaks founder with hacking crimes. Assange was taken into custody this morning by the Metropolitan Police at the Ecuadoran embassy, where he'd been granted asylum. In an indictment released this morning, the Department of Justice said Assange was charged with conspiracy to commit computer intrusion. In one exchange regarding Guantanamo Bay, Manning told Assange that "after this upload, that's all I really have got left." Jennifer Robinson, Assange's lawyer, tweeted that Assange had been arrested for a breach of bail conditions as well as the extradition request from the U.S. Robinson couldn't be reached for comment at the time of publication.

Source: Forbes April 11, 2019 13:35 UTC