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       The twelve years that Julian Assange lived in confinement and detention marked an age unto itself. In 2012, the brash Australian online publisher and founder of WikiLeaks took sanctuary in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, fleeing a European arrest warrant that sought him for questioning regarding an accusation of sexual assault in Sweden that Assange said was trumped up. At the time, the silver-haired Assange was the man of the moment — and he believed it, too, even releasing a video in 2011 taking credit for fomenting the wave of uprisings in the Arab world.