Assange, who has stayed under diplomatic protection in the Ecuadoran embassy in London since August 2012, says the United States plans to indict him over WikiLeaks' publishing classified materials. He hopes that, by unsealing the charges, he may be able to protect himself from arrest in Britain. But in November, a document in a separate case that was inadvertently unsealed made two references to an "Assange" case. Assange originally fell afoul of US authorities after WikiLeaks published classified Pentagon and State Department documents in 2010. Last week, Assange asked the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to order President Donald Trump's administration to unseal charges against him.

Source: Dhaka Tribune January 31, 2019 16:30 UTC