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Here's a look at the life of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
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Birth date: July 3, 1971
Place of birth: Townsville, Queensland, Australia
Father: John Shipton
Mother: Christine (Hawkins) Assange
Other facts:
When he was one year old, his mother married Brett Assange, who adopted him.
Guest played the main role himself during the 500th episode of The Simpsons, in 2012. He recorded his lines over the phone from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, where he got the phone number. asylum.
Chronology:
2006 – Wikileaks is founded by Assange.
2007 – WikiLeaks publishes the manual of procedures for Camp Delta, the American detention center of Guantanamo Bay.
September 2008 – WikiLeaks publishes e-mails from Yahoo's account of Vice President Sarah Palin.
April 5, 2010 – WikiLeaks has released a video showing a US Army helicopter that fired two journalists and several Iraqi civilians and killed two journalists and several Iraqi civilians in 2007. According to the army, the crew of the helicopter thought the targets were armed insurgents and not civilians.
July 25, 2010 – Wikileaks displays more than 90,000 classified documents related to the war in Afghanistan.
August 20, 2010 – Swedish prosecutors are issuing an arrest warrant against Assange on the basis of allegations of sexual assault from two female WikiLeaks volunteers.
August 21, 2010 – The Swedish prosecutor's office announces the cancellation of the arrest warrant.
August 31, 2010 – Assange is interrogated by the Stockholm police and informed of the charges against him.
October 22, 2010 – Wikileaks publishes classified military documents of the war in Iraq.
November 20, 2010 – The Stockholm Criminal Court issues a warrant of arrest against Assange.
November 28, 2010 – WikiLeaks begins to publish diplomatic cables from US embassies. The site indicates that the documents will be published in stages "in the coming months".
December 7, 2010 – Go to the London authorities. Assange is remanded in custody.
December 16, 2010 – Is released on bail and placed under house arrest.
February 24, 2011 – A judge rules in support of Assange's extradition to Sweden. Assange's lawyers file an appeal.
April 24, 2011 – WikiLeaks begins publishing classified military documents providing details on the behavior and treatment of detainees held at the US Naval Detention Center in Guantanamo Bay.
September 2, 2011 – WikiLeaks publishes its archive of more than a quarter million US diplomatic cables.
November 2, 2011 – The judges of the court of appeal in London ruled in favor of the extradition of Assange to Sweden.
November 15, 2011 – The UK's judicial office announces that Assange has asked to appeal to the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom against extradition to Sweden.
May 30, 2012 – The British Supreme Court rejects Assange's appeal against extradition to Sweden but grants him two weeks to appeal. This is unusual because the decisions are meant to be final.
June 19, 2012 – Assange enters the Embassy of Ecuador in London and asks for political asylum.
August 16, 2012 – Ecuador announces that he has granted asylum to Assange.
August 19, 2012 – Delivered a public address from the balcony of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, asking the United States to abandon their "witch hunt" against WikiLeaks.
September 26, 2012 – Delivered a satellite speech in a full UN conference room, calling on the US government to stop his actions against him and his website. The event was organized by the Mission of Ecuador for reasons related to the UN, but was not officially sponsored by the world body.
November 2012 – Assange's book, "Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet", is published.
February 10, 2015 – The Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, Bernard Hogan-Howe, told LBC radio that Assange's surveillance operation at the Ecuadorian embassy in London "was swallowing up our resources" while the cost was reaching more than 10 million pounds ($ 15.3 million).
May 11, 2015 – The Swedish Supreme Court rejects Assange's latest appeal for the dismissal of an arrest warrant for allegations of sexual assault.
July 3, 2015 – France rejects Assange's request for "protection" after publishing an open letter in the national newspaper Le Monde.
August 13, 2015 – Swedish prosecutors are announcing that they are abandoning allegations of sexual violence and coercion, while the statute of limitations in the investigation is exhausting this month. However, allegations of rape suspicion are still valid and Swedish investigators have stated that it could be investigated until 2020.
February 5, 2016 – A UN human rights working group said its investigation had revealed that Assange was arbitrarily detained by the Swedish and British governments.
May 25, 2016 – A Swedish court upheld the arrest warrant against Assange. A Swedish prosecutor said that it was still possible to prosecute him for a rape charge and that "the risk that he escapes justice is always great".
July 22, 2016 – Wikileaks publishes nearly 20,000 emails from staff members of the Democratic National Committee. The leaked e-mails seem to show that the committee favors the supposed Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton to Bernie Sanders during the American presidential primary. On July 29, Assange told CNN's Anderson Cooper that the broadcast of this e-mail was scheduled to coincide with the start of the Democratic National Convention.
September 15, 2016 – WikiLeaks announces via Twitter that "If Obama grants pardon to Manning, Assange will accept a prison sentence in exchange for his stay, despite his flagrant illegality," referring to Chelsea Manning, former intelligence analyst The imprisoned army convicted of violating the law on espionage.
September 16, 2016 – A Swedish court of appeal again ruled that the arrest warrant against Assange on rape allegations was still valid. It is the eighth time that the European arrest warrant is tested in a Swedish court. The eight judgments were directed against Assange.
November 14, 2016 – WikiLeaks tweeted that Assange is making a statement to a Swedish prosecutor over allegations that he sexually assaulted two women in the country six years ago.
January 3, 2017 – In an interview with Sean Hannity of Fox News, Assange said that the Russian government was not behind the hacked emails of the DNC. He also denies having spoken to Russian President Vladimir Putin and claimed to have had no contact with the campaign for President-elect Donald Trump.
April 20, 2017 – The Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, announces that the Department of Justice is preparing the charges for Assange and that his arrest is a "priority".
May 19, 2017 – Swedish prosecutors abandon their investigation into rape charges against Assange, ending a legal stalemate of nearly seven years.
December 12, 2017 – Becomes a naturalized citizen of Ecuador.
March 27, 2018 – Assange's Internet communications outside the Ecuadorian Embassy in London have been suspended for at least the second time since October 2016. The government accuses him of not having undertaken to agree not to broadcast messages that undermine business of other nations.
October 19, 2018 – Assange asks his legal team to take legal action against the Ecuadorian government for "violation of his fundamental rights". Ecuador comes after the leak of a memo revealing new rules of the house to which Assange must join London from 1 December. The memorandum, written in Spanish and first published by the Ecuadorian website Codigo Vidrio, states that Assange must pay for his own. expenses such as food, medical care and laundry, that visitors must have prior authorization, and that it must not only keep the spaces inside the Embassy clean, but also take care of his cat. He also reiterated the position that he was not allowed to interfere in the political affairs of other countries.
