Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange's Long Fight Against Extradition To US

Here is a timeline of his legal troubles after he agreed to plead guilty to revealing military secrets in exchange for his release from prison.

Jailed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been fighting for years to avoid extradition from Britain in connection with the 2010 publication of thousands of US classified documents.

Here is a timeline of his legal troubles after he agreed to plead guilty to revealing military secrets in exchange for his release from prison, ending his years-long legal drama:

In July 2010, Assange's WikiLeaks whistleblowing website begins publishing hundreds of thousands of leaked US military documents about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, some of which detail US abuses.