Last year when a BBC journalist while interviewing Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev, asked him about the restrictions on free press in his country, he rebuked the reporter and said “You have no moral right to talk about free media when you do these things”, by these things he meant treatment of Julian Assange by the U.K government. It’s been over two years now, since the London Metropolitan Police entered into Ecuadorian Embassy in London and arrested Assange and ever since then he has been languishing in U.K’s high security Belmarsh Prison and many fear that this has taken a toll on his physical and mental health. It’s really sad to see that there hasn’t been a lot of mainstream media coverage of Assange and his current plight, but, hey what do you expect from media houses whose primary motive is to rake in big bucks. So, let’s talk about Assange and how he ended up where he is now. So, if you remember, back in 2010, Assange and Wikileaks along with some major media outlets published 100s and 1000s of documents exposing potential war crimes committed in Afghanistan and Iraq and subsequently in the same year they also published classified U.S embassies’ cables that further embarrassed the U.S government. At the time, many in the U.S government claimed that these leaks would endanger the lives of its operatives on the ground and in the field, however, so far, there hasn’t been any evidence to suggest that has indeed been the case. Let’s take a look back at how some of the most powerful governments in the world went after Assange to appease the most powerful country in the world, and many may find it amusing that the reason initially Assange was arrested in the United Kingdom was not actually for his role in embarrassing the U.S government. So, why was he arrested, you ask? O.K let me take you down the memory lane. In August 2010, the Swedish Prosecutor's Office issued an arrest warrant for Assange accusing him of sexual misconduct. In December 2010 Assange was arrested in London based on the arrest warrant issued by the Swedish authorities In May 2012 - The UK's Supreme Court ruled that Assange should be extradited to Sweden to face questioning over the allegations of sexual misconduct, however, many including Assange feared that these accusations by Swedish authorities were in fact at the behest of United States and if Assange were to be extradited to Sweden, then he would most certainly end up in the U.S facing trumped up espionage charges.   Therefore, in June 2012, Assange violating his bail conditions, went to Ecuadorian Embassy in London and sought asylum. Subsequently, in August 2012, Ecuador granted him asylum on the grounds that his human rights might be violated if he was extradited. In August 2015, Swedish authorities dropped their investigation into two allegations against Assange, one of sexual molestation and one of unlawful coercion, because they had run out of time to question him. But the more serious accusation of rape wasn’t dropped until May 2017. Between July 2018 and April 2019, many claim that under pressure from the U.S government the Ecuadorian government engaged in talks with the U.K government and finally in April 2019, The London Metropolitan Police entered the Ecuadorian embassy and arrested Assange for "failing to surrender to the court" over a warrant issued in 2012. In May 2019, Assange is sentenced to 50 weeks in jail for breaching his bail conditions from 2012.