WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said Wednesday he is launching a legal challenge against the Donald Trump administration. lawyers for the activist have filed an application to the Washington-based Inter-American Commission of Human Rights, aimed at forcing U.S. prosecutors to “unseal” any secret charges against him. It is believed that American prosecutors have been investigating Assange since at least 2011 over his website’s publication of hundreds of thousands of diplomatic cables.
— source politico.eu | 1/23/19