through the court filings to reveal what was going on and reporters started picking up on it. there was an additional issue with the assange case. the spokesperson for the eastern district of virginia said they would not comment further. we are seeing reports of charges made against julian assange. we don't know what those may be, but you have to keep in mind that u.s. authorities have been looking at assange since 2010 for the leaks of the confidential leaks of the cables and the things that wikileaks has done since. julian assange has been hiding in the ecuador embassy in london since 2012. he has been claiming asylum. until then, they were supportive of him. in the last few months, we have seen the shift. the ecuadorian president called julian assange a stone in their shoe. julian assange has claimed the officials are trying to push him out by doing things like restricting his internet access