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		</div><p>WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been charged by the US Justice Department with receiving and publishing classified information.</p>
<p>The charges are contained in an 18-count indictment announced on Thursday.</p>
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<div id="div-gpt-ad-incontent-1" data-google-query-id="CJ3HqrDOsuICFYcchwod8r0MTg">The new Espionage Act charges go far beyond an initial indictment against Assange made public last month that accused him of conspiring with former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning in a conspiracy to crack a Defence Department computer password.</div>
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<p>Wikileaks caused particular harm by publishing the names of people who helped American forces in Iraq and Afghanistan and U.S. diplomats around the world.</p>
<p>The new indictment says Assange conspired with Manning to obtain and disclose classified national defence documents, including State Department cables and reports on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.</p>
<p>It says his actions “risked serious harm” to the United States.</p>
<p>The case presented questions about media freedom, including whether the Justice Department is charging Assange for actions — such as soliciting and publishing classified information — that ordinarily journalists do as a matter of course.</p>
<p>Department officials said they believe Assange strayed far outside First Amendment protections.</p>
<p>But a lawyer for Assange said the “unprecedented charges” against his client threaten all journalists looking to inform the public about actions taken by the US government.</p>
<p>Barry Pollack said the indictment charges Assange with “encouraging sources to provide him truthful information and for publishing that information”.</p>
<p>The 47-year-old is in prison in London after being evicted from the Ecuadorian Embassy in April. The US is seeking his extradition.</p>
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