LONDON: A London court begins hearings on Monday to decide whether WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange should be extradited to the United States where he is wanted over charges that he conspired to hack U.S. government computers and violated an espionage law.July 1971 - Born in Townsville, Australia, to parents who were involved in theatre and travelled frequently. Gains a reputation in his teens as a sophisticated computer programmer.
April 5, 2010 - Wikileaks releases leaked video from a U.S. helicopter showing an air strike that killed civilians in Baghdad, including two Reuters news staff.July 25, 2010 - Over 91,000 documents, mostly secret U.S. military reports about the Afghanistan war, are released by WikiLeaks, a month after U.S. soldier Bradley Manning is arrested for leaking such material.
June 14, 2012 - The British Supreme Court rejects Assange's final appeal. Five days later he takes refuge in Ecuador's embassy in London and asks for political asylum, breaking conditions of his bail. Ecuador grants Assange asylum in August. April 11, 2019 - A screaming Assange is carried out of the Ecuadorean Embassy and arrested by British police after Ecuador revokes his political asylum.
May 13 - Swedish prosecutors reopen the investigation and say they will seek Assange's extradition to Sweden.
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