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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange arrested after seven years in Ecuadorian embassy.

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Assange is working for many years on Russian intelligence services. Putin and his fascist gang is acting with increasing impudence everywhere he can: be it US elections, Brexit vote, Venezuela, Libya or whatever. It is high time to get serious about this threat to human civilization and give a strong punch to bandit Putin.
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Apparently the Ecuadorian embassy decided to stop protecting him and allowed his arrest. As far as I know, so far they have not said why, after protecting him for years.
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gera wrote: Thu Apr 11, 2019 6:34 pm Assange is working for many years on Russian intelligence services. Putin and his fascist gang is acting with increasing impudence everywhere he can: be it US elections, Brexit vote, Venezuela, Libya or whatever. It is high time to get serious about this threat to human civilization and give a strong punch to bandit Putin.
Assange is responsible for all of that? Jeez, what a guy.
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Why did Ecuador give up Assange after seven years?

By Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN

April 12, 2019

London (CNN) - Hours after Julian Assange was ousted from his diplomatic refuge at the Ecuadorian embassy in London, the country released a laundry list of alleged transgressions which brought the WikiLeaks founder's seven-year residency to an end.

Foreign Minister José Valencia and Interior Minister María Paula Romo accused Assange of riding scooters around the cramped embassy hallways, insulting staff and smearing feces on the walls.

But while Ecuador had undoubtedly tired of its London house guest, the motivations for stripping Assange of his asylum and allowing in officers of the Metropolitan Police are likely to have been more complex.

WikiLeaks had already been needling the Ecuadorian authorities in other ways. For months, Assange had been pursuing a legal action against the Ecuadorian government, accusing it of violating his rights by introducing strict new house rules for living at the embassy. An Ecuadorian judge rejected the assertions back last October.

Quito was also irritated by Assange's support for the Catalonian independence movement: Its foreign ministry told Assange to refrain from making statements that could impair Ecuador's relations with other countries, including Spain.

More recently, WikiLeaks got personal. On March 25, WikiLeaks posted a tweet bringing attention to a corruption probe that Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno is facing. It linked to an anonymously registered website hosting a vast trove of leaked emails, text messages and other documents pertaining to Moreno's private life.

The Ecuadorian government blamed WikiLeaks for the leaked documents, dubbed the INA Papers, an allegation that WikiLeaks denies.

For WikiLeaks and its supporters, the Ecuadorian government tried to use the INA Papers leak as yet another pretext to terminate Assange's asylum.

Moreno has denied any wrongdoing. The Attorney General's office has launched an investigation into the allegations. WikiLeaks denied any involvement in the release of the INA Papers but that hasn't stopped Moreno from pointing the finger at Assange and WikiLeaks.

Assange does not have the right to "hack accounts or personal phones," Moreno told the Ecuadorian Radio Broadcasters' Association last Tuesday
Over the weekend, the Ecuadorian Ministry of Foreign Relations ramped up the rhetoric against Assange when it put out a fiery statement rejecting "the fake news that has circulated in the last few days on social media, many of them spread by an organization linked to Mr. Julian Assange."
Relations between Assange and Ecuador deteriorated further on Wednesday when WikiLeaks called a press conference and claimed the group had discovered a spying operation against Assange from within the embassy.

Speaking to reporters in London, Kristinn Hrafnsson, the Editor-in-Chief of WikiLeaks, said Ecuador had made surreptitious video and audio recordings of Assange and his interactions at the embassy, including a medical examination and meetings with legal representatives.
Assange is Australian but had been granted Ecuadorian naturalization in 2017. Less than 24 hours after WikiLeaks' press conference, Assange's Ecuadorian citizenship had been revoked, his asylum rescinded, and embassy officials had invited the Metropolitan Police over to forcibly remove him.

Moves against WikiLeaks were not just taking place in London. In Ecuador, the interior ministry announced that it had arrested a "close collaborator" of Assange at Quito's airport as he was preparing to fly to Japan on Thursday.

Interior Minister Maria Paula Romo told CNN that the individual under arrest is Ola Bini, a Swedish software developer who she said had visited the Ecuadorian Embassy in London several times.

Romo said at a press conference Thursday that Bini, Assange and WikiLeaks have been trying to destabilize the government of Moreno. She accused Bini of working with with Ricardo Patiño, who was foreign minister during the government of former President Rafael Correa, who granted asylum to Assange.

"For several years now, one of the key members of the WikiLeaks organization and a person close to Assange has lived in Ecuador," Romo said at the press conference.

Correa told CNN Thursday that the decision by his successor to revoke Assange's asylum status was "the biggest betrayal perhaps in Latin American history."

Hyperbole, perhaps. But whatever the truth, the story of Assange's turbulent 2,488 days in the Ecuadorian embassy isn't over yet.

https://us.cnn.com/2019/04/12/uk/julian ... index.html
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CNN wrote: Sat Apr 13, 2019 10:29 am Why did Ecuador give up Assange after seven years?
Follow the money. It's always about money. Money and power. On Monday Ecuador received $4 billion from the US. Why give him up? Hmm, I wonder why.

Whatever happens next will be a warning to journalists the world over. Don't mess with the Establishment, you expose us, we will make you suffer.
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I hope UK will keep him for the next 12 months. It will give plenty of time to MI6 to investigate all connections of this piece of shit with Russians and other gangsters throughout the world. Assange is not a journalist. He deliberately chose to damage the West and serve the most pathetic forces in the world. Just his actions during US elections helped elect Trump. That alone is enough to exterminate this filthy cockroach.
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Lauren Said-Moorhouse wrote: Sat Apr 13, 2019 10:29 am More recently, WikiLeaks got personal. On March 25, WikiLeaks posted a tweet bringing attention to a corruption probe that Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno is facing. It linked to an anonymously registered website hosting a vast trove of leaked emails, text messages and other documents pertaining to Moreno's private life.
I don't follow this case, but would think this is behind the change of policy.
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gera wrote: Sat Apr 13, 2019 9:09 pm I hope UK will keep him for the next 12 months. It will give plenty of time to MI6 to investigate all connections of this piece of shit with Russians and other gangsters throughout the world. Assange is not a journalist. He deliberately chose to damage the West and serve the most pathetic forces in the world. Just his actions during US elections helped elect Trump. That alone is enough to exterminate this filthy cockroach.
Wikileaks have in the past also released hundreds of thousands of papers from both Russia and China. The US electorate voted for Trump, Assange didn't get to vote. Politicians east and west are all corrupt. So you got a corrupt Trump rather than a corrupt Clinton.
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Captain Kirk wrote: Sun Apr 14, 2019 3:49 am you got a corrupt Trump rather than a corrupt Clinton.
As an aside from the topic - I'll take a corrupt Clinton over a corrupt Trump any day. Actually, that's just what the USA did. Hillary Clinton won the election. The only reason Trump is in office is because of that long outdated, obsolete electoral college system.

As for Julian Assange, if his behavior in the embassy was anything like described in the article, I'm surprised they waited this long to get rid of him. I don't remember why Ecuador granted him asylum in the first place.
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