WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange has been arrested at the Ecuadorian embassy in London, the BBC reported Thursday.
According to London’s Met Police, Assange was arrested for failing to surrender to the court. The BBC reports that Ecuador’s president Lenin Moreno said the country withdrew Assange’s asylum for repeatedly violating international conventions.
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A video of the arrest shows Assange being carried into a van, saying “UK must resist,” and mentioning “the Trump administration.”
Assange was granted asylum by Ecuador in August 2012, and he has resided at the London embassy since. He sought asylum to avoid being extradited to Sweden on charges of sexual assault (the charges have since been dropped). He feared that Sweden would extradite him to the U.S., which is investigating him and WikiLeaks over the publishing of secret U.S. documents. Read more…
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