He was facing charges in Sweden of that involved 2 two separate women. The sex in both cases was consensual on more than one multiple occasions. one claimed that Assange caused the condom to tear. And the other said he had sex with her the third time without a condom despite agreeing to use one.
In April 2019, British authorities stormed the Ecuadorian embassy and arrested Assange.
In May 2019, the U.S. issued an 18 count indictment on charges related to “Illegally Obtaining, Receiving, and Disclosing Classified Information”.
Most of these charges stem from information that was published in 2009. It was given to Wikileaks by then a soldier and US citizen Chelsea Manning. And she served 6 years of a 35-year sentence which was commuted to “time-served” by the Obama administration for violating the Espionage Act.
The statute of limitations expired in 2020 for both charges that the Wikileaks publisher faced in Sweden. And Assange remains jailed in a London prison while attorneys fight in British courts to avoid extradition to the US.
