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- On 11 April 2019, Assange's asylum was withdrawn following a series of disputes with Ecuadorian authorities. The police were invited into the embassy and he was arrested.
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Indictment and arrest of Julian Assange. Sealed indictment of Julian Assange, returned 6 March 2018, released on 11 April 2019. In 2012, while on bail, Julian Assange was granted political asylum in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, where he sought to avoid extradition to Sweden, and what his supporters said was the possibility of subsequent ...
Feb 20, 2024 · By SYLVIA HUI. 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.
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- February 21, 2024
- UK Reporter
May 20, 2024 · FILE - The founder of WikiLeaks Julian Assange waves to supporters as he leaves after speaking to the media after his extradition hearing at Belmarsh Magistrates’ Court in London, on Feb. 24, 2011. 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.
- 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.
On 18 November 2010, Marianne Ny ordered the detention of Julian Assange on suspicion of rape, three cases of sexual molestation and unlawful coercion. The Stockholm District Court acceded to the order and issued a European Arrest Warrant to execute it.
May 19, 2024 · Nov. 18, 2010 - A Swedish court orders Assange's arrest on sex crime allegations, which he denies. He is arrested in Britain the next month on a European arrest warrant but freed on bail.
Dec 8, 2010 · Reuters. Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange is currently jailed in the UK, and is fighting extradition to the United States on espionage charges. The 48-year-old Australian was arrested in...
