Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange has been arrested at the Ecuadorian embassy in London. The 47-year-old had took refuge in the embassy in 2012 to avoid being extradited to Sweden over a sexual assault case which has since been dropped.
The 47-year-old had took refuge in the embassy in 2012 to avoid being extradited to Sweden over a sexual assault case which has since been dropped.Ecuador’s president Lenin Moreno said his country had withdrawn Assange’s asylum after his repeated violations of international conventions. Assange will not be extradited to a country with the death penalty, Moreno said.
In a tweet, Wikileaks claimed Moreno had invited British police into the building to arrest Assange, saying Ecuador had acted illegally in terminating Assange’s political asylum “in violation of international law”.Julian Assange did not “walk out of the embassy”. The Ecuadorian ambassador invited British police into the embassy and he was immediately arrested.
Nearly 7yrs after entering the Ecuadorean Embassy, I can confirm Julian Assange is now in police custody and rightly facing justice in the UK.for its professionalism. No one is above the law“I would like to thank Ecuador for its cooperation & metpoliceuk for its professionalism. No one is above the law.”
Russia on Thursday slammed Assange’s detention as a move against democratic freedoms. “The hand of ‘democracy’ is strangling freedom,” foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Facebook. According to an AFP report, former Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa labelled Moreno a ‘traitor’ following the arrest.
The lawyer of the Swedish woman who accused Assange of rape in 2010 said she and her client would ask Swedish prosecutors to reopen the investigation which was dropped in 2017. Elisabeth Massi Fritz, the lawyer, told AFP: “We will do everything we can to get the prosecutors to reopen the Swedish investigation so that Assange can be extradited to Sweden and be prosecuted for rape. As long as the statute of limitations has not expired my client has hope for restitution.
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