@Dbot He's being persecuted for no other reason than telling the truth, exposing war crimes. What he and the rest of WikiLeak stands for is very inconvenient for the military industrial complex.
No, he's being charged with inciting a member of the military — who's already been punished, no thanks to Assange's bullshit promises to pay for her legal defense — into committing espionage.
"Journalists" don't get to suborn crimes to get "stories".
Let's not even get into the number of people he's endangered thanks to his slothful resistance to things like redaction.
Julian Assange should be freed.