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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, speaking from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, urges the US to end the investigation into WikiLeaks. <\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
Julian Assange speaks from the Ecuadorean embassy. Photo: AFP\/Leon Neal <\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
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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. <\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
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