Live updates: Julian Assange to attend plea deal hearing in Saipan

Swedish authorities charged him with committing sexual assault in 2010, allegations he denied, prompting him to hide out for nearly seven years at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. Prosecutors dropped the investigation in 2019, the embassy ousted him shortly thereafter and British authorities detained him on behalf of the United States.

After his Tuesday hearing in Saipan, the largest island and capital of the Northern Mariana Islands, he is expected to be extradited to his native Australia.

Like the secrets he helped reveal, his saga was an international affair — involving the United States, Britain, Sweden, Ecuador and Australia.