Lee Brown at the New York Post reports on Julian Assange being re-arrested in the United Kingdom.
Julian
Assange was re-arrested in a UK court’s cells Monday to be hit with new hacking
charges — just moments before losing his bid to delay an extradition hearing trying
to get him to face espionage charges in the US.
The 49-year-old WikiLeaks founder,
clean-shaven and wearing a suit, was re-arrested in the cells of London’s top
criminal court early Monday while awaiting his appearance to try to fight
extradition, Sky News reported.
The fresh arrest means he now formally faces
the new indictment announced in June that broadens “the scope of the
conspiracy” that could see him sentenced to 175 years in prison if convicted.
The wider-reaching indictment accuses him
of recruiting a 17-year-old hacker as well as working with shady online groups
like Anonymous and LulzSec.
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