Commenting on the arrest in London of the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, Margarita Simonyan, chief editor of the Russian government media outlets RT and Rossiya Segodnya, repeatedly claimed the whistleblower is facing death penalty in the United States.
Polygraph: Does Julian Assange face death penalty in the US as Russians claim?
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange speaks on the balcony of the Embassy of Ecuador in London on May 19, 2017.