Lawsuit filed – Assange’s lawyers accuse CIA of spying

The US intelligence agency allegedly violated its constitutional protections for private conversations, in this case with Assange. Two American journalists also joined the lawsuit. Prosecutors say the CIA worked with Undercover Global, a security firm hired by the Ecuadorian embassy in London, to spy on Australian Assange, his lawyers, journalists and other visitors to the WikiLeaks founder.

Right to fair trial ‘nullified’
Assange’s right to a fair trial is “now being compromised, if not destroyed” by CIA espionage because the government is aware of the content of the talks, attorney Robert Boyle, who represents the plaintiffs, told reporters in New York. “In response to these clearly unconstitutional activities, sanctions, including dismissal from the case or withdrawal of the extradition request,” said the lawyer, referring to Assange’s legal process.

Lawyers Margaret Ratner Kunstler and Deborah Hrbek and journalists Charles Glass and John Goetz filed the lawsuit. They had all visited Assange at the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where he was granted political asylum from 2012 to 2019. He is now in British custody.

Assange faces up to 175 years in prison if extradited
Assange appealed in July against the British government’s decision to extradite him to the United States. There, he faces up to 175 years in prison for posting about 700,000 confidential documents to WikiLeaks in 2010, including those about US military activities in Iraq and Afghanistan.