WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is seen as he leaves a police station in London
Wikileaks founder pleaded "not guilty" to charges of failing to surrender following his arrest earlier in the day by British police in London.
Assange, arrested by British police in London and carried out of the Ecuadorean embassy there, faces a maximum penalty of five years in prison on the American charges, the U.S. Justice Department said in a statement.
His London arrest paved the way for his possible extradition to the United States.
The Justice Department said Assange, 47, was arrested pursuant to the U.S./UK Extradition Treaty, and accused him of involvement in one of the largest compromises of classified information in the history of the United States.
The indictment said that Assange in March 2010 engaged in a conspiracy to assist Manning in cracking a password stored on U.S. Department of Defense computers connected to the Secret Internet Protocol Network (SIPRNet), a U.S. government network used for classified documents and communications.
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