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WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Kristinn Hrafnsson poses for a photograph in Reykjavik, Iceland on Friday, Nov. 16, 2018. Hrafnsson says that the news that Julian Assange, WikiLeaks’ founder, faces unspecified charges in the United States is a “black day for journalism.” (AP Photo/Egill Bjarnason)

Free speech threat seen in prosecuting WikiLeaks’ Assange

By RAPHAEL SATTER - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 19, 2017, file photo, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange greets supporters from a balcony of the Ecuadorian embassy in London. The Justice Department inadvertently named Assange in a court filing in an unrelated case that raised immediate questions about whether the WikiLeaks founder had been charged under seal. Assange’s name appears twice in an August 2018 filing from a prosecutor in Virginia in a separate case involving a man accused of coercing a minor. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, File)

The Latest: AP Source: Sealed charges filed against Assange

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FILE - In this May 19, 2017, file photo, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange greets supporters from a balcony of the Ecuadorian embassy in London. The Justice Department inadvertently named Assange in a court filing in an unrelated case that raised immediate questions about whether the WikiLeaks founder had been charged under seal. Assange’s name appears twice in an August 2018 filing from a prosecutor in Virginia in a separate case involving a man accused of coercing a minor. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, File)

WikiLeaks’ Assange faces charges; lawyer says he’d fight

By ERIC TUCKER - Associated Press

In this file photo dated Friday, May 19, 2017, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange looks out from the balcony of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, FILE)

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange case: Federal prosecutor inadvertently reveals charges

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

In this May 19, 2017 file photo, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange greets supporters outside the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where he has been in self imposed exile since 2012. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, file)

Justice Department prepares to charge Julian Assange: Report

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

A supporter of Julian Assange holds a banner during a demonstration outside the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, Thursday, March 29, 2018. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

Ecuador denies receiving orders from abroad seeking Julian Assange, wanted WikiLeaks founder

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

People hold up images of Julian Assange that read in Spanish: "Ecuadorian," to show support for his double nationality, as they counter protest others demanding the government remove his Ecuadorean nationality outside the government palace in Quito, Ecuador, Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2018. Ecuador's government has provided the Australian hacker refuge for six years, but their relations have grown increasingly prickly as the years have dragged on with no solution in sight. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)

Ecuador says U.K. won’t extradite WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange to face death penalty abroad

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

In this Feb. 5, 2016 file photo, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange walks onto the balcony of the Ecuadorean Embassy in London. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)

Julian Assange loses first round in court fight challenging Ecuador’s new embassy rules

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

In this Feb. 5, 2016 file photo, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange walks onto the balcony of the Ecuadorean Embassy in London. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)

Ecuador judge rules against Assange over embassy changes

By GONZALO SOLANO - Associated Press

In this May 19, 2017, file photo, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange greets supporters from a balcony of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, File)

Julian Assange’s lawsuit against Ecuador halted over WikiLeaks publisher’s issue with translator

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

In this May 19, 2017, file photo, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange greets supporters from a balcony of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, File)

WikiLeaks touts legal action against Ecuador over Julian Assange’s stay inside embassy

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

In this file photo dated Friday, May 19, 2017, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange looks out from the balcony of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, FILE)

Assange presses Ecuador to grant basic rights under asylum

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In this file photo dated Friday, May 19, 2017, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange looks out from the balcony of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, FILE)

Newly published files confirm plan to move Assange to Russia

By RAPHAEL SATTER - Associated Press

In this May 19, 2017 file photo, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange greets supporters outside the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where he has been in self imposed exile since 2012. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, file)

Report: Ecuador tells Assange to curb speech, look after cat

By RAPHAEL SATTER - Associated Press

In this Monday, Jan. 26, 2015 file photo, Kristinn Hrafnsson, spokesman for the WikiLeaks organization, listens during a press conference, at the Press Club, in Geneva, Switzerland. WikiLeaks on Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2018 named one-time spokesman Kristinn Hrafnsson as its new editor-in-chief. The ramifications of the move are unclear. The organization was founded and has been led for more than a decade by Julian Assange, the 47-year-old ex-hacker, but the silver-haired Australian has been isolated for years at the Ecuadorean Embassy in London. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP, file)

Kristinn Hrafnsson replaces Julian Assange as WikiLeaks editor-in-chief

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

Ecuador's President Lenin Moreno Garces waits to address the 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly, at U.N. headquarters, Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2018. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Correction: Ecuador-UK-Assange story

By CLAUDIA TORRENS - Associated Press

Roger Stone talks to people outside a courtroom in New York, Thursday, March 30, 2017. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig) ** FILE **

Roger Stone may have tried to contact Julian Assange: Report

By Gabriella Muñoz - The Washington Times

In this Jan. 11, 2011, file photo, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange arrives at Belmarsh Magistrate's court in London for an extradition hearing. According to a cache of internal WikiLeaks files obtained by The Associated Press, Assange sought a Russian visa and staffers at his radical transparency group discussed having him skip bail and escape Britain as authorities closed in on him in late 2010. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)

Russia plotted sneaking Julian Assange out of Ecuadorian Embassy in London: Report

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

This document obtained by The Associated Press shows a letter to the Russian Consulate in London dated Nov. 30, 2010. Although it isn’t clear whether the missive was actually delivered to the consulate, it does show that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange sought a Russian visa as authorities were closing in on him in the wake of his publication of U.S. State Department cables. The letter is part of a wider cache of internal WikiLeaks files recently obtained by the AP. Sections of the image are redacted to protect sensitive information. (AP Photo)

WikiLeaks denies Julian Assange sought Russian visa

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

In this Jan. 11, 2011, file photo, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange arrives at Belmarsh Magistrate's court in London for an extradition hearing. According to a cache of internal WikiLeaks files obtained by The Associated Press, Assange sought a Russian visa and staffers at his radical transparency group discussed having him skip bail and escape Britain as authorities closed in on him in late 2010. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)

New leak shows Julian Assange sought Russian visa in 2010

By Raphael Satter - Associated Press