美国国会通过《间谍法》是为了阻止间谍向外国政府传递机密信息。大陪审团上一次根据该法发布起诉书是在二战期间。
Yet it remains far from certain that Assange will stand trial in the United States. That is because the U.S.-U.K. treaty prohibits extradition for the specific charges Assange faces, according to legal experts.
然而,阿桑奇是否会在美国受审还远未确定。据法律专家称,这是因为美英条约禁止引渡阿桑奇面临的这种特殊指控。
“Espionage is generally considered a political offense, and the treaty forbids extraditing someone charged with political offenses,” John T. Nelson, a legal fellow at the Just Security blog, wrote recently.
Just Security博客的法律研究员纳尔逊(John T. Nelson)最近写道,“间谍活动通常被认为是一种政治犯罪,条约禁止引渡被控政治犯罪的人。”
Assange founded WikiLeaks in 2006 as “an intelligence agency of the people." To obtain secret documents to publish on his website, he “repeatedly encouraged sources with access to classified information to steal and provide it to WikiLeaks to disclose,” prosecutors wrote in the superseding indictment.
阿桑奇于2006年创建了维基解密,称其为“人民的情报机构”。检方在新的起诉书中写道,为了获得要发布在其网站上的机密文件,他“一再鼓励接触机密信息渠道的人士窃取信息,并提供给维基解密予以披露”。
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