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Julian Assange published 'stolen' military documents and is not an 'ordinary journalist', says US government

Source: PA Wire

Julian Assange was not acting as an “ordinary journalist” when he encouraged the leak of hundreds of thousands of classified military documents, the US government has argued on the second day of the Wikileaks founder’s final battle against extradition.

The 52-year-old is wanted in America to stand trial over the public disclosure in 2010 and 2011 of secret documents relating to the Afghan and Iraq wars as well as detainees at Guantanamo Bay.

His supporters

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