What’s happened to him, he looks like he’s aged 30 yrs.
Julian Assange arrested in Ecuadorian Embassy
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Indeed I should have, but thanks for clarifying.
Been stuck in a room for 7 years.
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Not like UK to be lying.
It sets an incredibly bad precedent if he is extradited to the US for simply leaking stuff. I really don't get all the hate he's getting and it just makes it look like propaganda from US govt. worked in shaping public opinion against him. There is no way any one is leaking anything after this which I assume was the motive behind this whole ordeal.
It makes no sense to go through all this trouble to simply charge him for breach of bail conditions. Unless he's extradited to the US, they've simply dragged him out to his freedom.
"Get your hands off my penis!"
Unless the agreement is that he can’t be given the death penalty in the US if he is found guilty of anything.
Same here. Feels like a republican parrot show in here. NSA, GCHQ etc. still doing everything he uncovered and yet they have people believing he's the villain, because "terror".
There was a piece in Guardian yesterday about Spanish police investigating Assange surveillance footage from inside the embassy being offered for sale.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2...eaks-says-spies-at-work-in-ecuadorean-embassy
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2...eaks-says-spies-at-work-in-ecuadorean-embassy
WikiLeaks has said it has uncovered a surveillance operation against Julian Assange at the Ecuadorian embassy and that images, documents and videos gathered have been offered for sale in Madrid.
Spanish police were said to have mounted a sting operation against unnamed individuals in Madrid who offered the material for sale in what lawyers and colleagues of Assange said on Wednesday was an attempt at extortion.
Some of the material came from video cameras with a capacity to record audio and which had been installed last year, a press conference organised by WikiLeaks was told.
WikiLeaks said material including video, audio, copies of private legal documents and a medical report had turned up in Spain, where a group was said to have threatened to start publishing unless they were paid €3m (£2.6m).
The Guardian reported last year that Ecuador had bankrolled a multimillion-dollar surveillance operation to protect and support Assange at the embassy, employing an international security company and undercover agents to monitor his visitors, embassy staff and even the British police.
Kristinn Hrafnsson, the editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks, said he had met four individuals, one of whom he was told was a ringleader and who had prior convictions. There was a possibility that at least one was not a Spanish national, he added. The matter is now in the hands of an investigating Spanish magistrate, according to the whistleblowing website.
Hrafnsson said the surveillance at the embassy – which had led to Assange living a “Truman Show existence” – was part of an escalation designed to result in Assange being extradited to the US.
“If you connect the dots it’s easy to draw that picture,” said Hrafnsson, who was appearing with the barrister Jennifer Robinson and Fidel Narváez, a former consul of Ecuador in London.
It remained unclear whether Assange was planning to leave the embassy of his own accord at any point soon. His legal team said they would still need assurances from the UK government that Assange would not face onward extradition to the US.
WikiLeaks said the surveillance had constituted a total invasion of privacy, which had included recordings of Assange’s meetings with his lawyers and doctor.
Robinson, a lawyer at Doughty Street Chambers who has long advised Assange, described the surveillance as a severe breach of lawyer-client privilege, which had undermined the ability of his legal team to properly defend their client.
Copies of photos, videos and documents recovered from the alleged extortionists were projected on to a screen at the press conference. There was no immediate comment from Ecuadorian authorities or Spanish police.
In March last year, Ecuador cut off Assange’s internet connection, saying he had breached an agreement not to issue messages that might interfere with other states. In a statement, the government said his behaviour on social media “put at risk the good relations [Ecuador] maintains with the United Kingdom, with the other states of the European Union, and with other nations”.
Supporters of Assange gathered outside the embassy in central London last Friday after the organisation said its sources in Ecuador had revealed he could be removed from the building “within hours to days”.
Ecuador’s foreign ministry released a statement last week saying it “doesn’t comment on rumours, theories or conjectures that don’t have any documented backing”, but a senior Ecuadorian official said no decision had been made.
WikiLeaks believes Assange would be extradited to the US if he left the building and was arrested by the Metropolitan police on an outstanding warrant for failing to surrender to bail.
In his first year in office, Ecuador’s president, Lenín Moreno, called Assange a “hacker”, an “inherited problem” and a “stone in the shoe”.
Spanish police were said to have mounted a sting operation against unnamed individuals in Madrid who offered the material for sale in what lawyers and colleagues of Assange said on Wednesday was an attempt at extortion.
Some of the material came from video cameras with a capacity to record audio and which had been installed last year, a press conference organised by WikiLeaks was told.
WikiLeaks said material including video, audio, copies of private legal documents and a medical report had turned up in Spain, where a group was said to have threatened to start publishing unless they were paid €3m (£2.6m).
The Guardian reported last year that Ecuador had bankrolled a multimillion-dollar surveillance operation to protect and support Assange at the embassy, employing an international security company and undercover agents to monitor his visitors, embassy staff and even the British police.
Kristinn Hrafnsson, the editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks, said he had met four individuals, one of whom he was told was a ringleader and who had prior convictions. There was a possibility that at least one was not a Spanish national, he added. The matter is now in the hands of an investigating Spanish magistrate, according to the whistleblowing website.
Hrafnsson said the surveillance at the embassy – which had led to Assange living a “Truman Show existence” – was part of an escalation designed to result in Assange being extradited to the US.
“If you connect the dots it’s easy to draw that picture,” said Hrafnsson, who was appearing with the barrister Jennifer Robinson and Fidel Narváez, a former consul of Ecuador in London.
It remained unclear whether Assange was planning to leave the embassy of his own accord at any point soon. His legal team said they would still need assurances from the UK government that Assange would not face onward extradition to the US.
WikiLeaks said the surveillance had constituted a total invasion of privacy, which had included recordings of Assange’s meetings with his lawyers and doctor.
Robinson, a lawyer at Doughty Street Chambers who has long advised Assange, described the surveillance as a severe breach of lawyer-client privilege, which had undermined the ability of his legal team to properly defend their client.
Copies of photos, videos and documents recovered from the alleged extortionists were projected on to a screen at the press conference. There was no immediate comment from Ecuadorian authorities or Spanish police.
In March last year, Ecuador cut off Assange’s internet connection, saying he had breached an agreement not to issue messages that might interfere with other states. In a statement, the government said his behaviour on social media “put at risk the good relations [Ecuador] maintains with the United Kingdom, with the other states of the European Union, and with other nations”.
Supporters of Assange gathered outside the embassy in central London last Friday after the organisation said its sources in Ecuador had revealed he could be removed from the building “within hours to days”.
Ecuador’s foreign ministry released a statement last week saying it “doesn’t comment on rumours, theories or conjectures that don’t have any documented backing”, but a senior Ecuadorian official said no decision had been made.
WikiLeaks believes Assange would be extradited to the US if he left the building and was arrested by the Metropolitan police on an outstanding warrant for failing to surrender to bail.
In his first year in office, Ecuador’s president, Lenín Moreno, called Assange a “hacker”, an “inherited problem” and a “stone in the shoe”.
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Seems like he will attend Westminster Magistrates court later on so we’ll see from that what is going on.
Plus the government will make a statement soon.
Plus the government will make a statement soon.
*I understood that reference.gif*He looks like Ben Kinglsey's Mandarin from Iron Man 3.
I for one am pleased he’s out. He looks dreadful and now he will get free health treatment.
The statute of limitations on the rape allegations in Sweden has not expired, so I would imagine the Swedish authorities will also want him back.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/l...rested-at-the-ecuadorean-embassy-live-updates
So basically America said jump and we said how high.
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Extradition request has to go through U.K. courts.
7 years ago I would have turned up to protest. I admired all the work Wikileaks did to expose US crimes in Iraq. He lost all that goodwill with me when he decided to phase out some good people at wikileaks for personal gain and took a partisan approach in the US elections to empower Trump.
doesn't look good on Equador. changing your mind after 7 years, sheesh.
Oh you thought we are not going to extradite him to a country with the death penalty ? We actually meant we are going to fly him to a state of that country with no death penalty.
I'm not too keen on him for the reasons stated by others but this is a US stitch up that we shouldn't be involved in. I find it hard to argue leaks should be discouraged.
He'll get 40 years whilst other upper class crooks and tax dodgers get a year or a fine.
He'll get 40 years whilst other upper class crooks and tax dodgers get a year or a fine.
Yes
Wasn't he a young man when he went in?
No. The Ecuadorian government have decided that they want him out and the US want to extradite him. I’m sure that they have been negotiating with each other to find a way to get him out.
Some of the reactions are just disgraceful.
Given the sexual assault charges have been dropped even the most heinous accusations you can launch as Assange are not going to warrant the sentence he will receive. His personal agenda against Clinton and the Democratic Party – Understandable given their stance towards him – May be dishonest and hypocritical but still very far from criminal.
He’s being punished for exposing illegal US War Crimes, illegal US policy and illegal US government surveillance. Anyone who believes otherwise is a moron and anyone who believes that’s justified is a terrible person.
Anyone who gives a damn about human rights should be outraged over this. They won’t cause muh Russia. Clowns.
Given the sexual assault charges have been dropped even the most heinous accusations you can launch as Assange are not going to warrant the sentence he will receive. His personal agenda against Clinton and the Democratic Party – Understandable given their stance towards him – May be dishonest and hypocritical but still very far from criminal.
He’s being punished for exposing illegal US War Crimes, illegal US policy and illegal US government surveillance. Anyone who believes otherwise is a moron and anyone who believes that’s justified is a terrible person.
Anyone who gives a damn about human rights should be outraged over this. They won’t cause muh Russia. Clowns.
Wait, the Us elections?! The other guy who did that your president FFS. So that's a strange reason to imprison this fellow.Should run in 2020.
Here’s a conspiracy theory for you:
This is part of Barr cleaning up for Trump. Wikileaks played a big role in election interference and his actions are no doubt detailed in the Mueller Report.
His prosecutor and judge will be carefully selected, he will get a plea deal and a joke of a sentence and will be free as long as he keeps his mouth shut.
This is part of Barr cleaning up for Trump. Wikileaks played a big role in election interference and his actions are no doubt detailed in the Mueller Report.
His prosecutor and judge will be carefully selected, he will get a plea deal and a joke of a sentence and will be free as long as he keeps his mouth shut.
Nice to see he's been keeping himself well groomed. looks like epic beard man.
American propaganda at full flow really with how people hate this guy now.
yeah it's weird given the caf is predominately quite left.
It's Ecuador that gave him up.
If this is indeed true it is outrageous, regardless of how you feel about Assange as a person.
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Obama should’ve put pressure on Ecuador to let him out a long time ago. This guy should spend the rest of his life in prison. He’s one reason for why we have got the current president. That’s inexcusable!
I hope he's not extradited to the US. The US spy agencies can eat shit. I do hope he faces those sexual allegations though.
It's because "Russia"* has muddled everyone's compass.
And also, the NSA stuff was Snowden/Greenwald, not Assange. He was with Manning who leaked the video of the US helicopter shooting journalists and ambulances, and US diplomatic cables, and later (after Manning was in jail) emails related to the Democrats.
*Predominantly the investigation and coverage of collusion.
Assange’s lawyer has apparently said that the extradition warrant is not related to US elections but to 2010 stuff with Chelsea Manning.