Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, has been sentenced to 50 weeks in prison for breaching bail conditions after spending almost seven years inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London. Today, he has an extradition hearing, which could conclude with him being sent to the US. Esther Addley and Julian Borger chart his rise and fall. Plus: Sean Ingle on the Caster Semenya ruling
Julian Assange and WikiLeaks are responsible for the largest data breach in US military history. In 2010, they released about 470,000 classified military documents concerning US diplomacy and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, then later that year, they released a further tranche of more than 250,000 classified US diplomatic cables.
The breach shocked the world and propelled WikiLeaks and Assange to global fame. In November 2010, a Swedish prosecutor issued a European arrest warrant for Assange over sexual assault allegations involving two Swedish women. Assange denies the claims. In 2011, a British judge ruled he could be extradited to Sweden. Fearing Sweden would hand him over to US authorities, Assange took refuge in the Ecuadorian embassy, where he was granted political asylum. He remained there until 11 April 2019, when police arrested him at the embassy after his asylum was withdrawn.
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