WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was arrested on a 7-year-old warrant early Thursday at the Embassy of Ecuador in London, and is currently being held in a police station. 'Julian Assange, 47, has today, Thursday 11 April, been arrested by officers from the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) at the
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was arrested on a 7-year-old warrant early Thursday at the Embassy of Ecuador in London, and is currently being held in a police station.
The warrant for"failure to appear" in court with regards to a now-closed rape inquiry in Sweden has been active for the past seven years. Police had been unable to arrest him while he held the status of asylum seeker in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, He had been confined there since 2012. Julian Assange is no hero and no one is above the law. He has hidden from the truth for years. Thank you Ecuador and President @Lenin Moreno for your cooperation with @foreignoffice to ensure Assange faces justice
Speculation that Assange was going to be arrested has circulated for months, after a host of new restrictions were placed on his access to the internet in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, as reported by ABC in October 2018. Assange's eviction from the Ecuadorian embassy comes on the heels of Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno's recent assessment that Britain has provided sufficient guarantees for Assange to leave the Ecuadorian embassy in London, which has been housing Assange since 2012.
In November, newly discovered court documents filed by federal prosecutors from the Eastern District of Virginia revealed that Assange appears to have"been charged" with a federal crime. In response to the revelation, Assange's lawyer in Washington, Barry Pollack, released a statement to ABC News on Nov. 15.
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