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He was initially arrested in London that year following accusations of sexual assault in Sweden and two years later the UK’s Supreme Court ruled he should be extradited to Sweden to face those charges.

Assange then broke bail to hole up in Ecuador’s embassy in London where he sought asylum.

UK police forcibly removed him from the embassy in 2019 and the offer of asylum was withdrawn. Sweden eventually dropped the rape charges but the extradition process over the leaks continued.

Assange’s supporters say he is an anti-establishment hero who has been victimised because he exposed US wrongdoing in conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq, and that his prosecution is a politically motivated assault on journalism and free speech.

https://www.skynews.com.au/world-news/un...179c9702f9