WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, has been charged with more than a dozen additional charges by U.S. federal prosecutors, under the controversial Espionage Act.
Assange, was arrested at the Ecuadorean embassy in London in April after the U.S. government charged him with conspiracy to hack a government computer to leak classified information about the Iraq War.
Ecuador withdrew his asylum request seven years after he first entered the embassy in 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden to face unrelated allegations of rape and sexual assault.
According to the newly unsealed indictment, Assange faces 17 new charges under the Espionage Act, a law typically reserved for spies working against the U.S.
