WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was arrested at Ecuador’s embassy in London on a U.S. extradition request on Thursday. Image: RuptlyBritish police on Thursday arrested WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in London at the request of U.S. authorities, a dramatic turn in Washington’s long-running effort to prosecute a man it accuses of running a hostile foreign intelligence service. Hours after the arrest, the U.S. Justice Department said Mr. Assange had been indicted in U.S. federal court on a computer-hacking conspiracy charge, in connection with what prosecutors described as “one of the largest compromises of classified information in the history of the United...

Source: Wall Street Journal April 11, 2019 09:51 UTC