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On November 20, 2010, Interpol issued a Red Notice for Mr. Assange's arrest after two women in Sweden claimed 'rape'. A week later he gave himself up, appeared before a judge in Westminster (UK), and in December 2010 was granted bail after his supporters paid £240,000 in cash and sureties.
Legal arguments in the UK continued until June 2012, with the Swedish prosecutors calling for him to be extradited, and his lawyers saying that if he was sent to Sweden he would be at risk of then being extradited to the US.
On June 19, 2012, he then fled bail and applied for asylum in Ecuador, through the embassy in Knightsbridge. Ecuador has no extradition treaties with the US or Sweden. But police encircled the embassy and refused to allow him to leave. The UK says its' courts have ruled he must be sent to Sweden.
Ecuador granted him asylum in August 2012, but as soon as he sets foot outside the building, Britain will deport him to Sweden. He has been inside the embassy ever since. He is not a fan of the Clinton's and has hacked into email accounts of theirs and leaked them. The Ecuadorian embassy has restricted his internet usage as of 2016.
The US has said that he has leaked military secrets but he denies this.

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