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2006: Julian Assange founds the disclosure platform Wikileaks. Reporters can post confidential documents on the website.
2010: Wikileaks is making headlines around the world with the release of US Army documents on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. A video shows US soldiers killing several civilians, including two Reuters employees, from a helicopter. Experts speak of war crimes. Publications are very harmful to the United States government.
2010: Sweden issues an arrest warrant for Julian Assange. The accusation: He is said to have sexually coerced two women in Sweden. Assange says the allegations are politically motivated. The British authorities arrested him but later released him on the condition that he was not allowed to leave the country.
2011: The British High Court ruled that extradition to Sweden was legal. Assange fears that Sweden will extradite him to the United States. He objects.
2012: Assange flees to the Ecuadorian embassy in London after his appeal against extradition is rejected. Apply for political asylum.
2017: The Swedish prosecution has closed the investigation against Assange. A British arrest warrant is still in effect against him because he fled to the Ecuadorian embassy in 2012, violating bail requirements at the time.
2019, April: Ecuador has a new president and the new government is withdrawing Assange’s political asylum. British police arrest Assange at the Ecuadorian embassy, also due to a preliminary request for extradition from the United States.
June 2019: UK authorities received an official extradition request from the United States. The United States accuses Assange of violating the Espionage Law.
2020, February: London extradition hearing begins. Assange could only be tried in the United States after an extradition. He faces up to 175 years in prison.
2020, September: After a longer crown-related hiatus, the hearing on the US judiciary’s extradition request will continue from September 7 to October 1.
2021, January: On January 4, a London court decided not to extradite Assange to the United States. The United States has announced that it will appeal the decision.
