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Before the ruling, police said he would still be arrested if he left the embassy. Ms Isgren listened as the questions were put to him by an Ecuadorean prosecutor, under an agreement worked out with Ecuador. No charges have been filed against him in the US, but American media outlets report that federal prosecutors are considering charges.
Chelsea Manning is released from Fort Leavenworth military prison in Kansas. Sweden's director of public prosecutions announces that the rape investigation into Mr Assange is being dropped. The Ecuadorean government confirms Mr Assange was granted Ecuadorean citizenship in December and asks the UK to recognise him as a diplomatic agent - a move that would give him immunity. The UK refuses. Lawyers for Mr Assange ask for a UK warrant for his arrest to be dropped.
Ecuador says the country's latest efforts to negotiate the departure of Mr Assange from its London embassy have failed. Ecuador cuts Mr Assange's internet connection. Mr Assange is given a set of house rules at the Ecuadorean embassy - which include cleaning his bathroom and taking better care of his cat. He is warned that his feline companion could be confiscated and is also told to look after its "wellbeing, food and hygiene".
Ecuador also says it will partially restore Mr Assange's internet connection. Wikileaks lawyers say its co-founder is going to launch legal action against the government of Ecuador, accusing it of violating his "fundamental rights and freedoms". It claims the government of Ecuador has refused Mr Assange a visit by Human Rights Watch general counsel Dinah PoKempner, and has not allowed several meetings with his lawyers.
In a statement, Wikileaks said: "Ecuador's measures against Julian Assange have been widely condemned by the human rights community. Mr Assange's lawyer, Barry Pollack, says his client will not be accepting a deal between the UK and Ecuador to allow him to be released. The agreement was rejected over fears it could be used as a pretext to extradite him to the US. Australia reveals that Mr Assange has a valid passport. The passport would allow Mr Assange, who was born in Townsville, Australia, in , to return to the country.
WikiLeaks tweets that a "high level source within the Ecuadorean state" has told them Mr Assange is to be expelled from the embassy within "hours or days". A senior Ecuadorean official says no decision has been made to remove him from the London building. Mr Assange is arrested at London's Ecuadorean embassy by Metropolitan Police officers for "failing to surrender to the court".
Ecuador's President Lenin Moreno says Mr Assange's asylum was withdrawn after his repeated violations of international conventions. But WikiLeaks tweets that Ecuador has acted illegally in terminating Mr Assange's political asylum "in violation of international law".
Mr Assange is sentenced to 50 weeks in jail after being found guilty of breaching the Bail Act. Sweden reopens an investigation into a rape allegation made against Mr Assange in , which he denies.
The case was dropped two years before as Swedish prosecutors said they could not progress the case while Mr Assange was still inside the embassy. Eva-Marie Persson, Sweden's deputy director of public prosecutions, said it would reopen because there was still "probable cause to suspect" that Mr Assange had committed the alleged rape. The US justice department files 17 new charges against Mr Assange, accusing him of violating the Espionage Act by publishing classified military and diplomatic documents.
The indictment said Mr Assange had "repeatedly encouraged sources with access to classified information to steal and provide it to Wikileaks to disclose". Wikileaks tweets that the announcement is "madness" and the "end of national security journalism and the first amendment". A Swedish prosecutor says an investigation into an allegation of rape against Mr Assange in has been discontinued. Deputy chief prosecutor Eva-Marie Persson says that because so much time has passed since the allegation was made, the evidence has weakened considerably.
Mr Assange fled to the UK when the allegation of rape, which he denies, was made in The IFJ represents more than , journalists in countries. Subscribe to IFJ News.
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