Timeline of the Julian Assange legal saga over extradition to the US on espionage charges

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been fighting for years to avoid extradition to the United States to face charges related to his organization’s publication of a huge trove of classified documents. On Monday, news came that Assange will plead guilty to a felony charge in a deal with the U.S. Justice Department. This will allow him to walk free and resolve his long-running legal saga that spanned multiple continents and centered on the publication of a trove of classified documents. He has been in custody in a high-security London prison since 2019 as a back-and-forth with the U.K. courts dragged on over whether he can be sent to the U.S.