Former Democratic candidate for US President Hillary Clinton believes that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who was arrested yesterday in London, "must answer for what he did".
"The bottom line is that he has to answer for what he did, at least for what he was accused of," said Clinton, who is also a former US secretary of state.
WikiLeaks released Democratic Party emails stolen by Russian intelligence during the 2016 election campaign, damaging the Clinton campaign.
Assange was arrested yesterday in London, after the Ecuadorian government revoked his asylum.
Assange has been in the Ecuadorian embassy since 2012, in order to avoid extradition to Sweden, which accuses him of sexual abuse.
Assange denies the charges and fears Sweden will hand him over to US authorities, who accuse him of leaking military and diplomatic documents.
The US Department of Justice announced yesterday that it charged Assange with conspiring with former US military intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning to break into a government computer with classified information.
Assange is accused of helping Manning crack a computer code that allowed her to break into the Pentagon's computer system.
A court in London yesterday ruled that Assange was guilty of breaching bail conditions in Great Britain. Based on that conviction, Assange faces up to 12 months in prison.
Assange pleaded not guilty in court.
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