ChinesePod Today: Julian Assange Arrested at Ecuadorian Embassy in London (simp. characters)
  • 5 years ago
ChinesePod News (April 12, 2019)

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been arrested and found guilty of “failing to surrender to the court” in 2012 (BBC reports). Assange is convicted on charges of conspiring to steal classified information from the Department of Defense computer systems. He will appear for an extradition hearing on May 2.

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This ChinesePod Today news broadcast includes the following vocabulary:

逮捕 to arrest
涉嫌 to be a suspect of
密谋 to plot
届时 by then
服刑 to serve a sentence

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