The American lawyers of the founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, announced on Monday to file a complaint against the CIA and its former director Mike Pompeo, whom they accuse of having recorded their conversations and copied the content of their phones and computers.

The lawyers and two journalists who joined the complaint are all Americans and affirm that the intelligence service violated their constitutional right to privacy, in this case with Julian Assange, who is Australian.

They claim that the CIA worked with a security company hired by the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where Julian Assange had taken refuge at the time, to spy on the founder of WikiLeaks, his lawyers, journalists and other people he met.

“There should be sanctions”

Julian Assange faces extradition from Britain to the United States, where he is accused of publishing diplomatic cables in 2010 related to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

According to attorney Robert Boyle, who represents the plaintiffs, these alleged acts of espionage mean that Julian Assange’s right to a fair trial has been “tainted, if not nullified” because “the content of these exchanges is now known to the government”. he told reporters.

“There should be sanctions, up to the dismissal of these charges or the withdrawal of the extradition request, in response to these clearly unconstitutional activities,” he judged.

The complaint was filed by lawyers Margaret Ratner Kunstler and Deborah Hrbek, as well as journalists Charles Glass and John Goetz. It targets the CIA, its former director and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, the security company Undercover Global and its president David Morales Guillén.

The complaint alleges that Undercover Global, a company based in Spain, which had a contract with the Ecuadorian embassy, ​​on behalf of the CIA collected information on the whistleblowers’ electronic devices, in particular exchanges with Julian Assange, and placed microphones. in the building, whose recordings, as well as remote surveillance images, were also sent to the US agency.