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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is arrested in London after Ecuador withdraws asylum. He is later found guilty of breaching bail in 2012 by a British court, however he faces likely extradition to the United States over allegations he conspired with former US military analyst Chelsea Manning to acquire classified U.S. government files. 2019-04-11
Swedish prosecutors drop a seven-year sexual assault investigation into WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. 2017-05-19
Wikileaks suspect United States Army Private Bradley Manning is formally charged ahead of a court martial. 2012-02-23
WikiLeaks releases secret documents on Egypt's nuclear power plant. [http:--www.almasryalyoum.com-en-node-460603 "(Al-Masry Al-Youm)"]2011-06-2
The latest U.S. diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks indicate that police brutality in Egypt is "routine and pervasive" and the use of torture so widespread that the Egyptian government has stopped denying it exists. 2011-01-28
Nearly two months after the WikiLeaks website launched the release of U.S. diplomatic cables, the total amount released stands at just over 1 per cent of its trove. 2011-01-23
Supporters of the WikiLeaks website explain that they are not hackers but "average internet citizens" acting in response to perceived injustices against the website and that they "do not want to steal your personal information or credit card numbers". 2010-12-10
Wikileaks releases Iraq War Logs, secret American military records which reveal new information, including that U.S. commanders allowed torture and execution to occur without investigation and that hundreds of civilians have been killed at U.S. military checkpoints during the War on Iraq. Hillary Clinton and other U.S. officials condemn the disclosures. 2010-10-22
The Pentagon makes a demand to Wikileaks that it remove its collection of classified military documents from the internet. 2010-08-6
Wikileaks releases over 92,000 documents detailing unreported killings of hundreds of Afghan civilians and other incidents related to the war in Afghanistan to "The Guardian", "The New York Times" and "Der Spiegel", in one of the biggest leaks in U.S. military history. 2010-07-26