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The Law Being Used to Prosecute Julian Assange Is Broken

Published: May 9, 2019, 7:23 a.m.

The First Amendment and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act collided last month when the UK arrested Wikileaks founder Julian Assange on, among other things, a US extradition request for computer crime. He has since been sentenced to 50 weeks in a British prison. For roughly seven years before his arrest, he\u2019d been living in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, but on April 11, the Ecuadorian government withdrew his asylum.