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The CIA and its former Director Mike Pompeo have been sued by a group of journalists and lawyers ...

Assange, 51, has been living in a London prison since his asylum was withdrawn in 2019. The US has been attempting to extradite Assange since a 2010 sexual assault investigation.

US journalists and lawyers who visited Wikileaks founder Julian Assange in the Ecuadorian Embassy are suing the CIA and its former director, Mike Pompeo, for unlawfully obtained confidential information their smart phones and laptops. A group of four US journalists and lawyers claim in a lawsuit filed on 15 August 2022 that staff working for a security company at the embassy in London unlawfully copied their electronic devices and passed their contents to the CIA during visits to the WikiLeaks founder. Lawyers acting for the group claim there is strong circumstantial evidence that staff workin...

Suit alleges CIA and its ex-director Mike Pompeo violated US constitutional protections for confidential discussions

Assange is facing extradition from Britain to the U.S., where he is charged with violating the U.S. Espionage Act by publishing U.S. military and diplomatic files in 2010 related to the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.