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  2. May 20, 2024 · Assange launched WikiLeaks in 2006, creating a web-based "dead letter drop" for would-be leakers. The website rose to prominence in April 2010 when it published a classified video showing a...

  3. Feb 20, 2024 · Updated 3:50 PM PDT, February 20, 2024. LONDON (AP) — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been fighting for more than a decade to avoid extradition to the United States to face charges related to his organization’s publication of a huge trove of classified documents.

    • shui@ap.org
    • February 21, 2024
    • UK Reporter
    • 2006. Assange founds WikiLeaks in Australia. The group begins publishing sensitive or classified documents.
    • 2010. In a series of posts, WikiLeaks released almost half a million documents relating to the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. August. Swedish prosecutors issue an arrest warrant for Assange based on one woman’s allegation of rape and another’s allegation of molestation.
    • 2011. February. District court in Britain rules Assange should be extradited to Sweden.
    • 2012. June. Assange enters Ecuadorian Embassy in central London, seeking asylum on June 19, after his bids to appeal the extradition ruling failed. Police set up round-the-clock guard to arrest him if he steps outside.
  4. May 20, 2024 · 20 May 2024. Getty Images. Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has won the right to appeal against extradition to the US, where he is accused of disclosing military secrets. The decision means...

  5. Feb 20, 2024 · Julian Assanges lawyers opened a final U.K. legal challenge Tuesday to stop the WikiLeaks founder from being sent to the United States to face spying charges, arguing that American authorities are seeking to punish him for exposing serious criminal acts by the U.S. government. (Feb.

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    • London Correspondent
  6. May 19, 2024 · The Australian-born Assange, 52, is wanted in the U.S. on 18 charges, nearly all under the Espionage Act, relating to WikiLeaks' mass release of secret U.S. documents - the largest security ...

  7. May 20, 2024 · 1:25. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange won the right to challenge a British court's decision to extradite him to the U.S. to face espionage charges, extending a yearslong legal battle that...

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