LONDON, June 17 (Reuters) - British interior minister Priti Patel on Friday approved the extradition of WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange to the United States where he is wanted on 18 criminal charges, including breaking a spying law.

Following are key events in the life of Assange and his long legal case:

July 1971 - Born in Townsville, Australia, to parents who were involved in theatre and travelled frequently. Gains a reputation in his teens as a sophisticated computer programmer.

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1995 - Pleads guilty to computer hacking and is fined, but avoids prison on condition he does not reoffend.

2006 - Founds WikiLeaks, creating an internet-based "dead letter drop" for leakers of classified or sensitive information.

April 5, 2010 - WikiLeaks releases leaked video from a U.S. helicopter showing an air strike that killed civilians in Baghdad, including two Reuters news staff.

July 25, 2010 - Over 91,000 documents, mostly secret U.S. military reports about the Afghanistan war, are released by WikiLeaks, a month after U.S. soldier Bradley Manning is arrested for leaking such material.

Oct. 2010 - WikiLeaks releases 400,000 classified military files chronicling the Iraq war. In November, it releases thousands of U.S. diplomatic cables including candid views of foreign leaders and blunt assessments of security threats.

The leaks represent the largest security breaches of their kind in U.S. military history.

Nov. 18, 2010 - A Swedish court orders Assange's arrest over rape allegations, which he denies, calling them part of a plot to secure his eventual transfer to the United States. He is arrested in Britain in December on a European Arrest Warrant and freed on bail.

Feb. 2011 - London's Westminster Magistrates Court orders his extradition to Sweden. Assange appeals.

June 14, 2012 - The British Supreme Court rejects Assange's final appeal. Five days later he takes refuge in Ecuador's embassy in London and asks for political asylum, breaking conditions of his bail. Ecuador grants Assange asylum in August.

March 17, 2017 - U.S. federal prosecutors expand a long-running grand jury investigation into WikiLeaks, which the CIA director calls a "hostile intelligence service".

May 19, 2017 - Swedish prosecutors discontinue their investigation, saying it is impossible to proceed while Assange is holed up in the Ecuadorean Embassy.

April 11, 2019 - A screaming Assange is carried out of the Ecuadorean Embassy and arrested by British police after Ecuador revokes his political asylum.

May 1, 2019 - Assange is sentenced to 50 weeks in prison by a British court for skipping bail. In September he completes the sentence early but remains jailed pending extradition hearings.

May 2, 2019 - Assange refuses to agree to be extradited to the United States, saying he is a journalist and his work has protected many people.

May 13, 2019 - Swedish prosecutors reopen the investigation and say they will seek Assange's extradition to Sweden.

June 11, 2019 - The U.S. Justice Department formally asks Britain to extradite Assange to the United States to face charges that he conspired to hack U.S. government computers and violated an espionage law.

Nov. 19, 2019 - Swedish prosecutors drop the rape investigation, saying the evidence is not strong enough to bring charges against Assange, in part because of the passage of time.

Jan. 4, 2021 - A British judge rules Assange should not be extradited to the United States, saying his mental health problems meant he would be at risk of suicide.

Dec. 10, 2021 - The U.S. authorities win an appeal at London's High Court against the judge's decision, after giving a package of assurances about the conditions of Assange's detention if convicted.

March 14, 2022 - The UK Supreme Court denies Assange permission to appeal the High Court decision.

March 23, 2022 - Assange marries his long-term partner Stella Moris, with whom he had two children while in the Ecuadorian embassy, inside a British high-security prison.

April 20, 2022 - His extradition case is sent to British Home Secretary (interior minister) Priti Patel for final approval.

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The most important website in the world right now isn't Facebook, Google or Twitter but one that's lifting the lid on the machinations of governments the world over. It's also shining a light on racist political parties and trying to out those who are actively censoring the web.

Wikileaks, for good or bad, is offering up the truth in a way that's not been seen before.

Its motto is "to publish fact-based stories without fear or favour" and it's a site run by volunteers who seemingly seek nothing but fact.

This week saw the biggest leak yet for the site. A total of 251,287 United States embassy cables were put onto torrents for anyone to download.

According to Wikileaks, it's "the largest set of confidential documents ever to be released into the public domain."

The documents go as far back as 1966 and offering them up to the public has seen the US and many other countries go into diplomatic crisis overload.

But this isn't the first time Wikileaks has managed to deliver documents that have embarrassed whole countries and it certainly won't be the last.

Below are 8 of the biggest leaks from a website that's only been around for four short years, but has already left a legacy that will last for decades to come.

1. Scientology exposed

It's one of the most secretive religions in the world. Founded by sci-fi author L Ron Hubbard in 1952 and now seen as the religion of choice by the Hollywood elite, the methods of the Church of Scientology have been shrouded in secrecy for a long time.

Wikileaks changed all this by posting "the collected secret 'bibles' of Scientology" a whole host of documents that explained the hierarchy within Scientology.

The religion and its lawyers were not best pleased.

2. BNP membership list released

For some reason, not everybody in the British National Party is happy to have their name associated with the BNP.

This became apparent when Wikileaks (and other blogs) published details of every member of the far-right political part, including addresses and what they did for a living.

The document meant that anybody who downloaded the information could CTRL+F their way to finding out who in their hometown was paying the BNP to pedal its non-immigration stance.

Teachers were exposed, as were members of the UK police force, which was bad news for the officers it's illegal to be in the police and support the party.

3. Afghan War logs

The leaking of the Afghan War Logs put Wikileaks firmly in the public conscience, mainly due to the US government publicly condemning the information that was made available to the public.

Talk of torture, the death of civilians and a multitude of cover-ups did not make for light reading, but did show off the true horror of what was seen by many as an unwinnable war.

4. Sarah Palin's email account gets hacked

Palin's latest slip of the tongue made her North Korea's latest fan recently, but it was her outed Yahoo email accounts that caused even more embarrassment back in 2008.

According to information given to Wikileaks, Palin was using her private Yahoo account to send work messages a minor faux pas, but one that is strictly forbidden when you're part of the US government.

Considering she may well be running for President in the near future, we really hope she doesn't make the same mistake again. Or at least updates her personal email to something a bit hipper, like Gmail.

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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange could soon be extradited from the United Kingdom to the United States where he faces 17 charges under the Espionage Act and a potential 175-year prison sentence.

U.K. Home Secretary Priti Patel approved Assange's extradition on Friday following a ruling by the country's Supreme Court in March that said his removal could go ahead. British courts had previously blocked efforts to extradite Assange, with a judge concluding in January 2021 that doing so would be "oppressive" because of his mental health and that it could possibly lead him to take his own life.

Following the Supreme Court ruling, Westminster Magistrates' Court in London ordered his extradition in April and sent the matter to Patel for final approval. Assange now has 14 days to appeal Patel's decision and WikiLeaks has said they will lodge an appeal. He's facing 17 charges of espionage and one charge of computer misuse.

Prosecutors allege that Assange unlawfully helped former U.S. Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning to steal thousands of classified diplomatic cables and military files, which were published by WikiLeaks in 2010. Assange founded the whistleblowing site in 2006.

The U.S. said the publication of those documents put lives at risk. Authorities have also noted any sentence is likely to be significantly less than the 175 years that Assange's lawyers have suggested he could receive.

The documents in question related to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and revealed that the U.S. had killed hundreds of civilians in Afghanistan in previously undisclosed incidents. The leaked files also showed that 66,000 civilians had been killed by Iraqi forces and that prisoners had been tortured.

Assange has always denied any wrongdoing and his supporters have called for him to be exonerated, arguing that his actions were journalism and in the public interest. His wife, Stella Assange, reiterated that position on Friday, saying it "is only the beginning of a new legal battle."

"Julian did nothing wrong," she said. "He has committed no crime and is not a criminal. He is a journalist and a publisher, and he is being punished for doing his job."

In November 2010, authorities in Sweden sought Assange's extradition over allegations of rape, which he has denied. He was detained by British authorities in December on a European arrest warrant and a court ordered his extradition in February 2011.

Assange appealed against the decision but when his appeal was rejected by the Supreme Court in June 2012, he took refuge in Ecuador's London embassy, where he remained for seven years until the country revoked his asylum status. Following his removal from the embassy in 2019, Assange was imprisoned for violating bail. It was in that year that U.S. Department of Justice requested his extradition, which had until recently been blocked by the courts.

Swedish authorities dropped their investigation into Assange in 2019, arguing that the evidence was not strong enough to bring charges and citing the passage of time.

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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange faces a dwindling number of options after the UK government approved his extradition to the United States on Friday. The decision is the latest chapter in a prolonged legal battle that started when former military intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning leaked classified government documents about the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, which Assange published on WikiLeaks in 2010.

Fridays decision, approved by UK home secretary Priti Patel, is the latest in a series of legal battles Assange has lost in his effort to remain in the UK. Its a blow to Assange, who has spent the last decade either in hiding in Ecuadors London embassy or in a UK prison. And his increasingly likely prosecution in US courts creates a precarious moment for First Amendment rights and the ability of news outlets to publish material deemed a threat to national security.

This is a dark day for Press freedom and for British democracy, WikiLeaks said in a statement shared on Twitter. Julian did nothing wrong. He has committed no crime and is not a criminal. He is a journalist and a publisher. Wikileaks said Assange intends to appeal.

Assange may have at least one more avenue of appeal, so he may not be on a flight to the United States just yet, Trevor Timm, executive director of the group Freedom of Press, said in a statement. But this is one more troubling development in a case that could upend journalists rights in the 21st century. The charges against Assange include 17 under the Espionage Act and one under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.

Fridays ruling overturns a December 2021 decision that declared Assange could not be extradited because subjecting him to US incarceration could increase the risk of suicide. The judge has accepted US assurances that Assange wont face solitary confinement and will have access to psychological treatment.

The UK courts have not found that it would be oppressive, unjust, or an abuse of process to extradite Mr. Assange, a spokesperson for the British Home Office told WIRED. Nor have they found that extradition would be incompatible with his human rights, including his right to a fair trial and to freedom of expression, and that whilst in the US he will be treated appropriately, including in relation to his health.

Assanges legal team has 14 days to appeal, according to the Home Office. His next step, now that the defenses argument based on Assanges suicide risk has been rejected, would likely be to focus on the other arguments his team has made against extradition, such as the threat it poses to press freedom and the political bias against Assange from United States law enforcement, given that Assange has been a thorn in the side of the US executive branch for over a decade.

I think theres a lot of roads to run here, says Naomi Colvin, UK/ Ireland director at the advocacy group Blueprint for Free Speech. She points out that even if these additional arguments fail to sway the UK judicial system, Assange can also appeal to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France, arguing that extradition would violate the UKs commitment to human rights treaties. In yet another option, Assanges team could demand a judicial review that would challenge the political side of Patels decision specifically, Colvin adds.

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U.K. Home Secretary Priti Patel signed the extradition order of the WikiLeaks founder, following a British court ruling in April that Mr. Assange could be sent to the U.S.

U.K. Home Secretary Priti Patel signed the extradition order of the WikiLeaks founder, following a British court ruling in April that Mr. Assange could be sent to the U.S.

The British government has ordered the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States to face spying charges. Wikileaks has responded, saying that Mr. Assange would appeal his extradition.

Home Secretary Priti Patel signed the extradition order on Friday, her department said. It follows a British court ruling in April that Mr. Assange could be sent to the U. S.

Today is not the end of the fight. It is only the beginning of a new legal battle. We will appeal through the legal system, a statement on the Wikileaks Twitter accounts said.

The Home Office said in a statement that the U. K. courts have not found that it would be oppressive, unjust or an abuse of process to extradite Mr. Assange.

Nor have they found that extradition would be incompatible with his human rights, including his right to a fair trial and to freedom of expression, and that whilst in the U. S. he will be treated appropriately, including in relation to his health.

The decision is a big moment in Mr. Assanges years-long battle to avoid facing trial in the U. S. though not necessarily the end of the tale. Mr. Assange has 14 days to appeal.

A British judge approved the extradition in April, leaving the final decision to the government. The ruling came after a legal battle that went all the way to the U. K. Supreme Court.

The U. S. has asked British authorities to extradite Mr. Assange so he can stand trial on 17 charges of espionage and one charge of computer misuse over WikiLeaks publication of a huge trove of classified documents more than a decade ago. American prosecutors say Julian Assange unlawfully helped U.S. Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning steal classified diplomatic cables and military files that WikiLeaks later published, putting lives at risk.

Journalism organisations and human rights groups have called on Britain to refuse the extradition request.

Supporters and lawyers for Julian Assange, 50, argue that he was acting as a journalist and is entitled to First Amendment protections of freedom of speech for publishing documents that exposed U. S. military wrongdoing in Iraq and Afghanistan. They argue that his case is politically motivated.

Mr. Assanges lawyers say he could face up to 175 years in jail if he is convicted in the U. S., though American authorities have said any sentence is likely to be much lower than that.

Julian Assange has been held at Britains high-security Belmarsh Prison in London since 2019, when he was arrested for skipping bail during a separate legal battle. Before that, he spent seven years inside the Ecuadorian Embassy in London to avoid extradition to Sweden to face allegations of rape and sexual assault.

Sweden dropped the sex crimes investigations in November 2019 because so much time had elapsed.

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British interior minister Priti Patel on Friday approved the extradition of WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange to the United States to face criminal charges, bringing his long-running legal saga closer to a conclusion.

Assange is wanted by US authorities on 18 counts, including a spying charge, relating to WikiLeaks' release of vast troves of confidential US military records and diplomatic cables which Washington said had put lives in danger.

His supporters say he is an anti-establishment hero who has been victimised because he exposed US wrongdoing in conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq, and that his prosecution is a politically-motivated assault on journalism and free speech.

The Home Office said his extradition had now been approved but he could still appeal the decision. WikiLeaks said he would.

"In this case, the UK courts have not found that it would be oppressive, unjust or an abuse of process to extradite Mr Assange," the Home Office said in a statement, adding:

Nor have they found that extradition would be incompatible with his human rights, including his right to a fair trial and to freedom of expression, and that whilst in the US he will be treated appropriately, including in relation to his health.

Originally, a British judge ruled that Assange should not be deported, saying his mental health problems meant he would be at risk of suicide if convicted and held in a maximum security prison.

But this was overturned on an appeal after the United States gave a package of assurances, including a pledge he could be transferred to Australia to serve any sentence.

Patel's decision does not mean the end of Australian-born Assange's legal battle which has been going on for more than a decade.

He can launch an appeal at London's High Court which must give its approval for a challenge to proceed. He can ultimately seek to take his case to the United Kingdom Supreme Court. But if an appeal is refused, Assange must be extradited within 28 days.

"This is a dark day for press freedom and for British democracy," Assange's wife Stella said. "Today is not the end of the fight. It is only the beginning of a new legal battle."

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The British government has approved the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States, where hes wanted on espionage charges over the release of a massive trove of classified military records and diplomatic cables.

U.K. Home Secretary Priti Patel rubber-stamped Assanges transfer on Friday, bringing his years-long legal limbo that much closer to an end. Hes expected to appeal the decision, which he must do within 14 days.

In this case, the U.K. courts have not found that it would be oppressive, unjust or an abuse of process to extradite Mr. Assange, the Home Office said in a statement.

Nor have they found that extradition would be incompatible with his human rights, including his right to a fair trial and to freedom of expression, and that whilst in the U.S. he will be treated appropriately including in relation to his health.

Julian Assange greets supporters outside the Ecuadorian embassy in London on May 19, 2017. (Frank Augstein/AP)

A British judge previously ruled against deporting Assange, concluding that it could exacerbate his mental-health problems and even put him at risk for suicide should he be placed in a maximum-security facility. The high court overturned that decision in December after it got assurances from the U.S. government about his treatment, including that Assange would not be subjected to special administrative measures, nor would he be held at a maximum-security prison at any point.

His wife, Stella Assange, in a statement on Friday, maintained that the 50-year-old Australian native committed no crime and is not a criminal, emphasizing that he is a journalist and a publisher who is being punished for doing his job. His supporters have similarly held up Assange as a hero who is being targeted because he exposed the United States wrongdoing amid conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq. Theyve blasted his prosecution as politically motivated and have dubbed it an attack on free speech.

This is a dark day for Press freedom and British democracy, she added. Anyone who cares about freedom of expression should be deeply ashamed.

The couple, who share two sons, married in a prison ceremony in March.

Assange is wanted in the United States on 18 counts, including spying, stemming from the publication of hundreds of thousands of classified military documents that the U.S. government said put lives in danger. Hes been behind bars at Britains high-security Belmarsh Prison in London since 2019, when he was arrested for skipping bail related to a separate legal battle.

Before that, he spent seven years inside the Ecuadorian Embassy in London in a bid to dodge extradition to Sweden, where he was accused of rape and sexual assault. The sex-crimes case was ultimately dropped in November 2019.

If convicted of spying under the Espionage Act, Assange faces up to 175 years in prison.

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WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange leaves Westminster Magistrates Court in London, Britain.

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The U.K. has approved the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the U.S., where he is wanted over the publication of hundreds of thousands of classified military documents and diplomatic cables.

The deportation was approved Friday by U.K. Home Secretary Priti Patel following a series of failed legal battles in British courts. However, a number of appeal routes remain open to Assange, who has 14 days to challenge the decision.

Assange is wanted by U.S. authorities on 18 counts, including a spying charge, relating to WikiLeaks' release in 2010 and 2011 of vast troves of confidential U.S. military records and diplomatic cables, which they claim had put lives in danger.

"On 17 June, following consideration by both the Magistrates Court and High Court, the extradition of Mr Julian Assange to the US was ordered. Mr Assange retains the normal 14-day right to appeal," a U.K. Home Office spokesperson said.

"In this case, the UK courts have not found that it would be oppressive, unjust or an abuse of process to extradite Mr Assange. Nor have they found that extradition would be incompatible with his human rights, including his right to a fair trial and to freedom of expression, and that whilst in the US he will be treated appropriately, including in relation to his health."

Friday's extradition approval is the latest development in a years long saga for Australian-born Assange. He has spent much of the last decade in confinement either in prison or in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. He is currently being held at high-security Belmarsh prison in London.

A spokesperson for Assange's legal team was not immediately available when contacted by CNBC.

Wikileaks said on Twitter that it would appeal the decision, adding that it was a "dark day for Press freedom and British democracy."

Assange's supporters have long claimed that he is an anti-establishment hero whose prosecution was politically motivated because he exposed U.S. wrongdoing in conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq.

The 50-year-old can appeal the decision at London's High Court, which must give its approval for a challenge to proceed.

His case could ultimately reach the U.K. Supreme Court. However, if it is refused, he must be extradited within 28 days.

Assange's lawyers have previously claimed that he could face a possible penalty of up to 175 years in prison if convicted in the U.S. However, the U.S. government said the sentence was more likely to be four to six years.

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Nick Vamos, head of business at London-based crime and commercial litigation law firm Peters & Peters, said Friday's extradition approval was far from over, with the "more interesting phase of Mr Assange's extradition battle is still to come."

"This decision was inevitable given the very narrow grounds on which the Home Secretary can refuse extradition, but is unlikely to be the end of road," Vamos said Friday.

Assange could appeal on all of the grounds on which he originally lost in the U.K. Supreme Court, said Vamos. Those grounds include political motivation, freedom of speech and whether he would receive a fair trial in the U.S.

"He may also try and introduce new evidence about CIA assassination plots and the fact that a key witness against him has publicly withdrawn his evidence," Vamos added.

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