Julian Assange sidelined, but the leaks continue

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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, speaking from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, urges the US to end the investigation into WikiLeaks.

Is Julian Assange back in the game? Many media and other observers have written off the WikiLeaks publisher as a diminished, almost comical figure, eking out an existence in Ecuador's London embassy where he has been granted diplomatic asylum.

Assange hasn't seen the sun for two years and it has appeared to many that his anti-secrecy group might also have had its day.

After all, WikiLeaks' biggest hits - the leaked Baghdad helicopter gunship video and the ''cablegate'' trove of US diplomatic records are now three years in the past.

Julian Assange speaks from the Ecuadorean embassy. Photo: AFP/Leon Neal

WikiLeaks' most notable source, US Army private Bradley Manning - now known as Chelsea Manning - has been sentenced to a long term of imprisonment for leaking.

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In a world that craves novelty and where the media cycle turns ever faster, Assange has looked like yesterday's news.

His complex legal circumstances remain unresolved. Sweden still wishes to extradite him to face questioning about sexual assault allegations that were first made in August 2010.

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Julian Assange sidelined, but the leaks continue