Julian Assange: key dates in the WikiLeaks founder's case

How Assange went from being questioned in Sweden to living for years in Ecuador’s embassy in London

• Julian Assange supporters gather outside court as extradition hearing starts

Julian Assange is to make his final bid for an appeal against a UK judge’s ruling over his extradition to the US.

The WikiLeaks founder is wanted in the US over an alleged conspiracy to obtain and disclose national defence information after the publication of hundreds of thousands of leaked documents relating to the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.