The founder of Wikileaks, Julian Assange has made his first public appearance in two months. He was speaking from a balcony of the Ecuadorian embassy in London where he has been holed up(

1. remain secluded or in hiding

) to avoid extradition to Sweden over sexual assault allegations. Mr. Assange thanked Ecuador for granting him asylum. He also criticized the United States saying Washington must promise not to prosecute him for leaking confidential documents.

Britain’s Supreme Court upholds verdict to extradite Wikileak founder Julian Assange to Sweden.

Assange is best known for revealing hundreds of thousands of secret U.S. documents, including a hard-to-watch video that captured U.S. forces gunning down a crowd of Iraqi civilians and journalists that they’d mistaken for insurgents.

His release of a quarter-million classified State Department cables outraged Washington and destabilized American diplomacy worldwide.

Assange’s appeal before the Supreme Court had little to do either with WikiLeaks or with the Swedish sex case itself. His lawyers were seeking to quash his warrant on the ground that it was improperly issued by a prosecutor, not a judge.

The Swedish government argued that’s the way the system works in Sweden, as in many other European countries.