Timeline: The saga of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's extradition
For more than a decade, Julian Assange, an activist and whistleblower, has been pitted against the US government.On April 20, a British court determined that Assange should be extradited to the United States to face charges of leaking confidential intelligence data. It overruled a January judgement by a lower court that Assange could not be extradited due to depression and the risk of suicide.