Timeline: Key developments leading to Julian Assange's arrest
July, October 2010
WikiLeaks releases some 470,000 classified military documents concerning American diplomacy and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. It later releases a further tranche of more than 250,000 classified US diplomatic cables.
November 18, 2010
A Swedish prosecutor issues a European arrest warrant for Assange over sexual assault allegations involving two Swedish women. Assange denies the claims, saying the young women consented. Assange turns himself in to police in London a month later and is placed in custody pending a ruling on the Swedish extradition request.
June 2012
Assange takes refuge in the Ecuadoran embassy in London. He requests, and is later granted, political asylum.
May 2017
Swedish prosecutors say they have closed their seven-year sex assault investigation. British police say they would still arrest Assange if he leaves the embassy as he breached the terms of his bail in 2012.
October 2018
Ecuador imposes new conditions on Assange in the embassy, warning that breaching them could lead to the "end of asylum".
April 3, 2019
Moreno says Assange has "repeatedly violated" the conditions of his asylum at the embassy.
April 11, 2019
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange arrested and taken into custody in central London.
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