2006
Assange creates Wikileaks with a bunch of like-minded activists and IT consultants to supply a safe method for whistleblowers to leak info. He shortly turns into its figurehead and a lightning rod for criticism.
2010
March: U.S. authorities allege Assange engaged in a conspiracy to hack a categorized U.S. authorities laptop with former Military intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning.
July: Wikileaks begins releasing tens of hundreds of prime secrets and techniques paperwork, together with a video of U.S. helicopter pilots gunning down 12 civilians in Baghdad in 2007. What adopted was the discharge of greater than 90,000 categorized US navy information from the Afghan conflict and 400,000 from Iraq that included the names of informants.
August: Two Swedish girls declare that they every had consensual intercourse with Assange in separate situations when he was on a 10-day journey to Stockholm. They allege the intercourse grew to become non-consensual when Assange refused to put on a condom.
First lady claims Assange was staying at her house in Stockholm when he ripped off her garments. She instructed police that when she realized Assange was making an attempt to have unprotected intercourse together with her, she demanded he use a condom. She claims he ripped the condom earlier than having intercourse.
Second Swedish lady claims she had intercourse with Assange at her house in Stockholm and she or he made him put on a condom. She alleges that she later woke as much as discover Assange having unprotected intercourse together with her.
He was questioned by police in Stockholm and denied the allegations. Assange was granted permission by Swedish authorities to fly again to the U.Okay.
November: A Swedish courtroom dominated that the investigation ought to be reopened and Assange ought to be detained for questioning on suspicion of rape, sexual molestation and illegal coercion. A world arrest warrant is issued by Swedish police by Interpol.
Wikileaks releases its cache of greater than 250,000 U.S. diplomatic cables.
December: Assange presents himself to London police and seems at an extradition listening to the place he’s remanded in custody. Assange is granted conditional bail on the Excessive Court docket in London after his supporters pay £240,000 in money and sureties.
2011
February: A British decide guidelines Assange ought to be extradited to Sweden however Wikileaks discovered vows to battle the choice.
April: A cache of categorized U.S. navy paperwork is launched by Wikileaks, together with intelligence assessments on practically the entire 779 people who find themselves detained on the Guantanamo Bay jail in Cuba.
November: Assange loses Excessive Court docket enchantment in opposition to the choice to extradite him.
2012
June: Assange enters the Ecuadorian embassy in London requesting political asylum.
August: Assange is granted political asylum by Ecuador.
2013
June: Assange tells a bunch of journalists he won’t go away the embassy even when intercourse prices in opposition to him are dropped out of concern he might be extradited to the U.S.
2015
August: Swedish prosecutors drop investigation into a number of the intercourse allegations in opposition to Assange on account of time restrictions. The investigation into suspected rape stays energetic.
2016
July: Wikileaks begins leaking emails U.S. Democratic Celebration officers favoring Hillary Clinton.
November: Assange is questioned over the intercourse allegation on the Ecuadorian Embassy within the presence of Sweden’s assistant prosecutor Ingrid Isgren and police inspector Cecilia Redell. The interview spans two days.
2017
January: Barack Obama agrees to free whistleblower Chelsea Manning from jail. Her pending launch prompts hypothesis Assange will finish his self-imposed exile after Wikileaks tweeted he would comply with U.S. extradition.
April: Lenin Moreno turns into the brand new president of Ecuador who was identified to wish to enhance diplomatic relations between his nation and the U.S.
Might: An investigation right into a intercourse allegation in opposition to Assange is immediately dropped by Swedish prosecutors.
2018
January: Ecuador confirms it has granted citizenship to Assange following his request.
February: Assange is visited by Pamela Anderson and Nobel Peace Prize winner Adolfo Perez Esquivel.
March: The Ecuadorian Embassy suspends Assange’s web entry as a result of he wasn’t complying with a promise he made the earlier yr to ‘not ship messages which entailed interference in relation to different states’.
August: U.S. Senate committee asks to interview Assange as a part of their investigation into alleged Russian interference within the 2016 election.
September: Assange steps down as editor of WikiLeaks.
October: Assange reveals he’ll launch authorized motion in opposition to the federal government of Ecuador, accusing it of violating his ‘basic rights and freedoms’.
November: U.S. Justice Division inadvertently names Assange in a courtroom doc that claims he has been charged in secret.
2019
January: Assange’s legal professionals say they’re taking motion to make President Trump’s administration reveal prices ‘secretly filed’ in opposition to him.
April 6: WikiLeaks tweets {that a} excessive degree Ecuadorian supply has instructed them Assange might be expelled from theembassy inside ‘hours or days’. However a senior Ecuadorian official says no choice has been made to take away him from the London constructing.
April 11: Assange has his diplomatic asylum revoked by Ecuador and he’s arrested by the Metropolitan Police; he’s remanded in custody by a decide at Westminster Magistrates Court docket.
April 12: He’s discovered responsible of breaching his bail phrases.
Might 1: Sentenced to 11 months in jail.
Might 2: Court docket listening to takes place over Assange’s proposed extradition to the U.S. He tells a courtroom he doesn’t consent to the extradition and the case is adjourned till Might 30.
Might 13: Swedish prosecutors reopen rape case saying they nonetheless wish to query Assange.
June 3: Swedish courtroom guidelines in opposition to detaining him in absentia, setting again the extradition case.
June 12 Dwelling Secretary Sajid Javid indicators an extradition request from the US.
June 13 A listening to units out the date for Assange’s full extradition listening to – February subsequent yr.
November Swedish prosecutors cease investigation into an allegation of rape in opposition to Mr Assange
November 25 – Medics say with out appropriate medical care Assange ‘may die’ in Belmarsh
December 13 – Listening to in London hears he’s being blocked from seeing key proof in case
December 19 – Seems at Westminster Magistrates Court docket through video-link the place his lawyer claims US bid to extradite him is ‘political’.
2020
February 24 -Assange faces an extradition listening to at Woolwich Crown Court docket.
Assange’s representatives argue he can not legally be handed to the US for ‘political offences’ due to a 2003 extradition treaty.
March 2 – Assange seems by video hyperlink at Westminster Magistrates Court docket, the place he’s refused bail amid the coronavirus disaster.
April 11 – Stella Moris, Assange’s associate, who gave beginning to his two youngsters whereas he was residing contained in the Ecuadorian embassy, points a plea for his launch amid fears for his well being.
June 24 – The US Division of Justice points an up to date 18-count indictment, over Assange’s alleged position in ‘one of many largest compromises of categorized info within the historical past of the US’.
August 25 – Ms Moris visits her associate in Belmarsh jail for the primary time in nearly six months.
September 7 – Assange’s extradition hearings resume on the Outdated Bailey. They’re anticipated to go on for as much as 4 weeks.
October 1 – Decide Vanessa Baraitser adjourned the case on the Outdated Bailey till January 4.
January 4 – Decide Baraitser strikes down US extradition bid.
2021
October – Lord Chief Justice Lord Burnett, sitting with Lord Justice Holroyde, hears two-day enchantment from US.
December 10 – They rule in favour of the US and overturn choice to not extradite Assange.
2022
January – Excessive Court docket provides Assange permission to ask the Supreme Court docket to contemplate his case.
April – After years of authorized toing and froing, Westminster Magistrates’ Court docket formally issued an order to extradite the WikiLeaks founder
June – Priti Patel indicators an order to extradite Julian Assange to the US to face espionage cost
