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  1. 1 day ago · WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was given permission on Monday to launch a full appeal against extradition to the United States, the latest phase of his long-running legal battle in the English ...

  2. 1 day ago · 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.
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  4. 1 day ago · A child even made a sign out of Lego blocks. Assange, 52, won the right to appeal his extradition to the U.S. on Monday at London's High Court. He faces charges related to WikiLeaks' publication ...

  5. 1 day ago · WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been given permission to have a full appeal over his extradition to the United States after arguing at London’s High Court that he might not be able to rely ...

  6. 978-0-85265-239-8. WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy is a 2011 book by British journalists David Leigh and Luke Harding. It is an account of Julian Assange, WikiLeaks, and the leak by Chelsea Manning of classified material to the website in 2010.

  7. 1 day ago · During 2010 it released more than 90,000 classified U.S. military documents on the war in Afghanistan, and about 400,000 secret U.S. files on the Iraq war - the largest security breaches of...