Assange ‘might only get five years’

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange could be put into solitary confinement in the US which would stop him even speaking to another prisoner, the High Court heard today. (Weds) The US government want to try the 50-year-old for espionage and hacking but a judge blocked his extradition in January because of the risk he would commit suicide in an American jail. Assange is accused by the US government of conspiring with army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning to leak classified military documents…