Many of the facts to which I am referring weren't known at the time of his UK court appearances. They emerged later when various documents were either released

Many of the facts to which I am referring weren't known at the time of his UK court appearances. They emerged later when various documents were either released or leaked or the law changed. So it isn't completely surprising that those things contradict what was presented at his hearings, nor that he lost those cases. I note that you appear to be making a distinction between house arrest and curfew. I'm not precisely sure of the legal or technical distinction. Another person seems to be making something of the distinction below. When I say "house arrest", I'm referring to the time when Assange was held in a property in the UK with an ankle bracelet which confined him to that property except when he had to report to the Norfolk police every day. Usually I thought curfew meant that someone was not allowed to travel away from home at night and house arrest was where you can't leave a given property. These seem to be the plain readings of the wikipedia definitions anyway.