The arrest warrant for Julian Assange, founder of the infamous Wikileaks resource, was issued by Interpol on December 1, 2010. Since that time, Assange has been under the threat of arrest, he is facing deportation to Sweden.
Julian Assange became world famous thanks to the Wikileaks network resource he founded, which has repeatedly published secret and confidential documents of a number of countries. In particular, a huge number of documents on the conduct of the military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan by the US army got into free access.
It was after the publication of these documents that Assange began to get into trouble, a criminal case of sexual harassment and rape was initiated against him - two women filed lawsuits in this regard in Sweden at once. In response, Julian told the press that the case was clearly not in vain and was probably connected with the Afghan dossier he had published. Immediately after this statement, the charges were dropped from him, but ten days later the case was reopened. Assange himself believes that this was done under US pressure. In Sweden, a warrant was issued for his arrest, in response to this Assange went to London. It was this departure that was the reason that on December 1, 2010, Interpol put Assange on the international wanted list.
On December 7, Julian himself reported to the police, where he was arrested. A week later, he was released pending trial on £ 240,000 bail. The trial took place in February 2011, and a decision was made to extradite Assange to Sweden. All appeals and appeals were unsuccessful, and the court's verdict remained in effect.
At the same time, the Swiss bank PostFinance froze Assange's accounts under the pretext of providing them with inaccurate information about the place of residence. It froze its assets and the PayPal payment system, this was done at the persuasive request of the US Department of State. They did not lag behind their colleagues Visa and MasterCard, blocking all receipts to the accounts of the WikiLeaks website. It is hard to believe that the reason for such a massive freeze of accounts and assets of Assange was “providing false information about his place of residence” or being charged with rape in Sweden.
When the British Supreme Court upheld the extradition order, Assange took refuge in the Ecuadorian embassy, which had granted him political asylum. Julian's decision, like the actions of Ecuador, displeased the British authorities. There were even threats of an assault on the Ecuadorian embassy, but later there were reports that there would be no assault. At the same time, the status of the embassy from the Ecuadorian mission can be taken away, since the territory of the embassy is used to hide a criminal, and not for its intended purpose. After that, Assange can be arrested, formally remaining within the framework of international law. Time will tell how this situation will be resolved. But everything suggests that in the near future Julian Assange will still be extradited to Sweden, after which new charges will be brought against him in the United States, where he will be extradited.
