2006, WikiLeaks is founded in Australia. The Australian Jullian Assange, publicist and activist, mainly focuses his actions on dictatorships in Asia, the Middle East and the former Soviet Union, among others.
2010, Assange and his organization become world news. with the publication of almost half a million documents, mainly American, including on the war in Iraq and Afghanistan. In Sweden, Assange is accused of rape. He flees to the United Kingdom, where he is arrested.
2012, Assange flees to the Ecuadorian embassy in London, to avoid his extradition to the US. He is granted political asylum, after which he spends years in the embassy. For three years, police watched the building, ready to arrest him.
2019, Ecuador wants to get rid of Assange and revokes his asylum status. He is being arrested. Assange is accused in the United States of publishing secret documents. Swedish justice drops rape charges.
2021, Assange fights his extradition to the US. and receives the support of a British judge. This stipulates that extradition is not allowed because he fears for his life in an American cell. The British Supreme Court rejects this and considers that the American guarantees are sufficient.
2022, the British government orders the extradition of Assange. He is challenging that decision. A year later, the Australian government calls for his release, but Britain’s highest judges rule that Assange cannot appeal his deportation.
2024, Assange and his lawyers make another attempt to avoid deportation. They will win a victory in May when the highest courts rule that he can appeal against his extradition.
2024, Assange reaches an agreement with the United States. In exchange for pleading guilty before American justice, he leaves his British cell and heads to Australia.
