Updated: Julian Assange dragged from embassy and arrested after Ecuador withdraws asylum wikileaks
LONDON — Police in London say they’ve arrested WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange at the Ecuadorean embassy on a court warrant dating back to 2012.
Also, the Swedish lawyer representing the alleged victim in a rape investigation involving Assange said on Thursday that she would push to have prosecutors reopen the probe, which was dropped in 2017. Assange hasn’t left the embassy since August 2012 for fear that if he steps off Ecuador’s diplomatic soil he will be arrested and extradited to the U.S. for publishing thousands of classified military and diplomatic cables through WikiLeaks.
— WikiLeaks April 11, 2019On Wednesday, WikiLeaks officials held a press conference where the group’s editor-in-chief, Kristinn Hrafnsson, said that Assange’s meetings with lawyers and a doctor had been secretly filmed by Ecuadorian authorities. Lenin Moreno announced the “sovereign decision” in a statement accompanied by a video on Twitter on Thursday.
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