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  1. May 20, 2024 · Assange faces a key hearing Monday May 20, 2024 in his decade-and-a-half-long attempt to avoid extradition to the United States on espionage charges. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File) FILE - The founder of WikiLeaks Julian Assange, center, arrives for his extradition hearing at the High Court in London, on Nov. 2, 2011.

  2. 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. He has been in custody in a high-security London prison since 2019, and ...

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    • February 21, 2024
    • UK Reporter
  3. May 20, 2024 · FILE - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange gestures as he talks during a news conference in central London, on Dec. 1, 2011. Assange faces a key hearing Monday May 20, 2024 in his decade-and-a-half ...

    • 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.
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  5. May 20, 2024 · Assange was arrested for "failing to surrender to the court" over a warrant issued in 2012. Officers made the initial move to detain Arrange after Ecuador withdrew his asylum and invited ...

  6. Jan 3, 2021 · Published Jan. 3, 2021 Updated Feb. 12, 2021. A judge in London on Monday rejected an American effort to have the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange extradited to the United States, where he...

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