Julian Assange ‘to be kicked out of the Ecuadorean embassy in HOURS and arrested as country does deal with UK authorities’ to end his seven-year stay, source claims
- Julian Assange is to be kicked out of the Ecuadorian embassy, Wikileaks claims
- It tweeted he could be kicked out within hours and quoted government source
- Wikileaks also said that Quito has an agreement with the UK to arrest him
Julian Assange is to be ‘kicked out of the Ecuadorian embassy in London within hours and arrested’ claim Wikileaks.
Wikileaks made the claim about its founder in a tweet and quoted a high-level Ecuadorian government source.
It also said that Quito has an agreement with the UK to arrest him.
Julian Assange, pictured on the balcony of the Ecuadorian embassy in London is to be ‘kicked out’ according to Wikileaks, the group he founded. Assange has been in the embassy since 2012 after Swedish authorities announced they wished to interview in connection with a rape allegation
Assange took refuge in Ecuador’s London embassy in 2012 to avoid being extradited to Sweden, where authorities wanted to question him as part of a sexual assault investigation.
In the tweet it said: ‘A high level source within the Ecuadorian state has told that Julian Assange will be expelled within ‘hours to days’ using the offshore scandal as a pretext–and that it already has an agreement with the UK for his arrest.’
The news comes after Ecuadorean President Lenin Moreno said on Tuesday that Assange has ‘repeatedly violated’ the terms of his asylum in the Andean nation’s London embassy.
Wikileaks made the claim about its founder in a tweet and quoted a high-level Ecuadorian government source
Moreno said under the terms of his asylum ‘Assange cannot lie or, much less, hack into private accounts or private phones’ and he could not ‘intervene in the politics of countries, or worse friendly countries’.
That probe was later dropped, but Assange fears he could be extradited to face charges in the United States, where federal prosecutors are investigating WikiLeaks.
He says Ecuador is seeking to end his asylum and is putting pressure on him by isolating him from visitors and spying on him.
Ecuador has said its treatment of Assange was in line with international law, but that his situation ‘cannot be extended indefinitely.’
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