– 2006: Assange based WikiLeaks in Australia. The group begins publishing delicate or categorised paperwork.
– 2010: In a collection of posts, WikiLeaks releases nearly half one million paperwork referring to the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
– August 2010: Swedish prosecutors subject an arrest warrant for Assange primarily based on one lady´s allegation of rape and one other´s allegation of molestation. The warrant is withdrawn shortly afterward, with prosecutors citing inadequate proof for the rape allegation. Assange denies the allegations.
– September 2010: Sweden´s director of prosecutions reopens the rape investigation. Assange leaves Sweden for Britain.
– November 2010: Swedish police subject a global arrest warrant for Assange.
– December 2010: Assange surrenders to police in London and is detained pending an extradition listening to. The Excessive Courtroom grants Assange bail.
– February 2011: A district courtroom in Britain guidelines Assange needs to be extradited to Sweden.
– June 2012: Assange enters the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, looking for asylum, after his bids to attraction the extradition ruling fail. He’s involved Sweden will hand him over to US authorities. Police arrange an around-the-clock guard to arrest him if he steps exterior.
– August 2012: Ecuador grants him political asylum.
– July 2014: A choose in Sweden upholds the arrest warrant towards him that alleges sexual offenses towards two ladies.
– March 2015: Swedish prosecutors ask to query Assange on the Ecuadorian Embassy.
– August 2015: Swedish prosecutors drop investigations into some allegations towards Assange due to the statute of limitations; an investigation right into a rape allegation stays energetic.
– October 2015: Metropolitan Police finish their 24-hour guard exterior the Ecuadorian Embassy however say they´ll arrest Assange if he leaves, ending a three-year police operation estimated to have price hundreds of thousands.
– February 2016: Assange claims ‘complete vindication’ because the U.N. Working Group on Arbitrary Detention finds that he has been unlawfully detained and recommends he be instantly freed and given compensation. Britain calls the discovering ‘frankly ridiculous.’
– September 2018: Ecuador´s president says his nation and Britain are engaged on a authorized resolution to permit Assange to depart the embassy.
– October 2018: Assange seeks a courtroom injunction urgent Ecuador to supply him primary rights he mentioned the nation agreed to when it first granted him asylum.
– November 2018: A U.S. courtroom submitting that seems to inadvertently reveal the existence of a sealed prison case towards Assange is found by a researcher. No particulars are confirmed.
– April 2019: Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno blames WikiLeaks for current corruption allegations. Ecuador’s authorities revokes Assange’s asylum standing. London police haul Assange out of the Ecuadorian Embassy and arrest him for breaching bail situations in 2012, in addition to on behalf of U.S. authorities.
– Could 2019: Assange is sentenced to 50 weeks in jail for leaping bail in 2012.
– Could 2019: The U.S. authorities indicts Assange on 18 fees over WikiLeaks´ publication of categorised paperwork. Prosecutors say he conspired with U.S. Military intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning to hack right into a Pentagon laptop and launch secret diplomatic cables and army information on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
– November 2019: Swedish prosecutor drops the rape investigation.
– Could 2020: An extradition listening to for Assange is delayed through the Covid-19 pandemic.
– June 2020: The U.S. information a brand new indictment towards Assange that prosecutors say underscores Assange´s efforts to obtain and launch categorised info.
– January 2021: A U.S. choose guidelines Assange can’t be extradited to the US as a result of he’s more likely to kill himself if held underneath harsh jail situations.
– July 2021: The Excessive Courtroom grants the U.S. permission to attraction the decrease courtroom’s ruling blocking Assange’s extradition.
– December 2021: The Excessive Courtroom guidelines that U.S. assurances about Assange’s detention are sufficient to ensure he could be handled humanely.
– March 2022: Britain´s Supreme Courtroom refuses to granted Assange permission to attraction towards his extradition.
– June 2022: Britain’s authorities orders the extradition of Assange to the USA. Assange appeals.
– Could 2023: Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says Assange needs to be launched and ‘nothing is served’ by his ongoing incarceration.
– June 2023: A Excessive Courtroom choose guidelines Assange can not attraction his extradition.
– Feb. 20, 2024: Assange’s attorneys launch a remaining authorized bid to cease his extradition on the Excessive Courtroom.
– March 26, 2024: Two Excessive Courtroom judges in London give U.S. authorities three extra weeks to submit additional assurances, together with a assure that Assange will not get the demise penalty, earlier than deciding whether or not they are going to grant him a brand new attraction towards his extradition.
– Could 20, 2024: The 2 Excessive Courtroom judges rule that Assange can mount a brand new attraction primarily based on arguments about whether or not he’ll obtain free-speech protections or be at an obstacle as a result of he’s not a U.S. citizen. The date of the listening to has but to be decided.
– June 26, 2024: Assange pleads responsible to an Espionage Act cost of conspiring to unlawfully receive and disseminate categorised nationwide protection info. The choose within the U.S. commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands sentences him to a time period already served within the British jail and pronounces him a ‘free man.’
