Lawyers for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange say they are suing the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and its former director Mike Pompeo.

The lawsuit accuses the CIA of recording lawyers’ conversations with Assange and copying the data on their phones and computers.

They claim that the agency violated their US constitutional right to privacy with their client.

Assange faces extradition to the US, where he is accused of publishing diplomatic files about the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq in 2010.

The Australian national has appealed the UK’s decision to grant the extradition request. The charges against him could result in a prison sentence of up to 175 years.

Read more: Euronews