Assange, founder of WikiLeaks.com, has proven to be at least as controversial as his site. While defending WikiLeaks from embarrassed governments, Assange has also had to defend himself against allegations of sex crimes in Sweden.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who has been in hiding out in Ecuador’s London embassy since June 19, 2012, was granted refugee status today by that government in a purported effort to keep him from ever being extradited to the U.S. to stand trial for publishing hundreds of thousands of secret U.S. government documents online.
