Julian Assange criminal investigation into WikiLeaks and asked allied nations for assistance. In November 2010, Sweden issued an international arrest warrant for Assange. He had been questioned there months earlier over allegations of sexual assault and rape. Assange denied the allegations, and said that he would be extradited from Sweden to the United States because of his rôle in publishing secret American documents. Assange surrendered to UK police on 7 December 2010 but was released on bail within 10 days. Having been unsuccessful in his challenge to the extradition proceedings, he breached his bail and absconded. He was granted asylum by Ecuador
Julian Assange WikiLeaks emailed the GRU via an intermediary seeking the DNC material and that the GRU sent the documents to Wikileaks in mid-July 2016 as an encrypted attachment. Assange is an advocate of information transparency and market libertarianism. He has written a few short pieces, including "State and terrorist conspiracies" (2006), "Conspiracy as governance" (2006), "The hidden curse of Thomas Paine" (2008), "What's new about WikiLeaks?" (2011), and the foreword to "Cypherpunks" (2012). He also contributed research to Suelette Dreyfus's "Underground" (1997), and received a co-writer credit for the Calle 13 song "Multi_Viral" (2013). "Cypherpunks" is primarily a transcript of the