Photos: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange speaks to the media from the balcony of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London in May 2017. Assange, founder of the website WikiLeaks, has been a key figure in major leaks of classified government documents, cables and videos. Hide Caption 1 of 22

Photos: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange Assange holds a copy of The Guardian newspaper in London on July 26, 2010, a day after WikiLeaks posted more than 90,000 classified documents related to the Afghanistan War. Hide Caption 2 of 22

Photos: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange Assange attends a seminar at the Swedish Trade Union Confederation in Stockholm on August 14, 2010. Six days later, Swedish prosecutors issued a warrant for his arrest based on allegations of sexual assault from two women. Assange has always denied wrongdoing. Hide Caption 3 of 22

Photos: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange Assange, in London, displays a page from WikiLeaks on October 23, 2010. The day before, WikiLeaks released approximately 400,000 classified military documents from the Iraq War. Hide Caption 4 of 22

Photos: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange Assange and his bodyguards are seen after a news conference in Geneva, Switzerland, in November 2010. It was the month WikiLeaks began releasing diplomatic cables from US embassies. Hide Caption 5 of 22

Photos: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange Assange sits behind the tinted window of a police vehicle in London on December 14, 2010. Assange had turned himself in to London authorities on December 7 and was released on bail and put on house arrest on December 16. In February 2011, a judge ruled in support of Assange's extradition to Sweden. Assange's lawyers filed an appeal. Hide Caption 6 of 22

Photos: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange In October 2011, a month after WikiLeaks released more than 250,000 US diplomatic cables, Assange speaks to demonstrators from the steps of St. Paul's Cathedral in London. Hide Caption 7 of 22

Photos: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange Assange leaves the High Court in London in December 2011. He was taking his extradition case to the British Supreme Court. Hide Caption 8 of 22

Photos: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange Assange leaves the Supreme Court in February 2012. In May of that year, the court denied his appeal against extradition. Hide Caption 9 of 22

Photos: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange Assange addresses the media and his supporters from the balcony of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London on August 19, 2012. A few days earlier, Ecuador announced that it had granted asylum to Assange. In his public address, Assange demanded that the United States drop its "witch hunt" against WikiLeaks. Hide Caption 10 of 22

Photos: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange Assange speaks from a window of the Ecuadorian Embassy in December 2012. Hide Caption 11 of 22

Photos: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange Assange addresses the Oxford Union Society from the Ecuadorian Embassy in January 2013. Hide Caption 12 of 22

Photos: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange Assange appears with Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino on the balcony of the embassy in June 2013. Hide Caption 13 of 22

Photos: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange Assange speaks during a panel discussion at the South By Southwest Festival in Austin, Texas, in March 2014. Hide Caption 14 of 22

Photos: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange Assange attends a news conference inside the Ecuadorian Embassy in London in August 2014. Hide Caption 15 of 22

Photos: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange Assange is seen on a video screen in March 2015, during an event on the sideline of a United Nations Human Rights Council session. Hide Caption 16 of 22

Photos: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange Assange, on the balcony of the Ecuadorian Embassy, holds up a United Nations report in February 2016. The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention said that Assange was being arbitrarily detained by the governments of Sweden and the United Kingdom. Hide Caption 17 of 22

Photos: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange Assange speaks to the media in May 2017, after Swedish prosecutors had dropped their investigation of rape allegations against Assange. But Assange acknowledged he was unlikely to walk out of the embassy any time soon. "The UK has said it will arrest me regardless," he said. "The US CIA Director (Mike) Pompeo and the US attorney general have said that I and other WikiLeaks staff have no ... First Amendment rights, that my arrest and the arrest (of) my other staff is a priority. That is not acceptable." Hide Caption 18 of 22

Photos: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange Assange was seen for the first time in months during a hearing via teleconference in Quito, Ecuador, in October 2018. The hearing was then postponed due to translation difficulties. Hide Caption 19 of 22

Photos: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange A van displays images of Assange and Chelsea Manning, the former Army intelligence analyst who supplied thousands of classified documents to WikiLeaks, outside the Ecuadorian Embassy in London on Friday, April 5. A senior Ecuadorian official said no decision has been made to expel Assange from the embassy. According to WikiLeaks tweets, sources had told the organization that Assange could be kicked out of the embassy within "hours to days." Hide Caption 20 of 22

Photos: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange A screen grab from video footage shows the dramatic moment when Assange was hauled out of the Ecuadorian Embassy by police on Thursday, April 11. Assange was arrested for "failing to surrender to the court" over a warrant issued in 2012. Officers made the initial move to detain Arrange after Ecuador withdrew his asylum and invited authorities into the embassy, citing the Australian's bad behavior. Hide Caption 21 of 22