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Ecuador has granted citizenship to Julian Assange as its government attempts to find creative ways of getting Assange out of the Ecuadorean embassy in London:
Ecuador says it has granted citizenship to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, as officials try to find a way for him to leave the Ecuadorean embassy in London without risking legal action.
Assange, who is Australian, first sought refuge at the embassy more than five years ago to avoid extradition to Sweden, where he faced an investigation over rape allegations. He was granted asylum, and has been holed up in the embassy ever since.
The original case against him has been dropped, but Assange remains inside the embassy. "He is still subject to arrest in Britain for jumping bail," The Associated Press notes. "He also fears a possible U.S. extradition request based on his leaking of classified State Department documents."
"Earlier this week, Ecuador said the situation was unsustainable and requested diplomatic status for Assange in hopes of springing him," NPR's Frank Langfitt reports from London. "A British government spokesman responded: 'Ecuador knows that the way to resolve this issue is for Julian Assange to leave the embassy to face justice.'"
Also at The Guardian.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anal Pumpernickel on Sunday January 14 2018, @05:45AM
The post hoc fallacy, huh?
You can't even make a probability argument because you don't have enough data to even reach a conclusion about how probable this claiming being true actually is.
Once again, no evidence. Can you look into alternate dimensions or something?
And again, the government should not take actions that necessitate whistleblowing if it does not want people to blow the whistle on them. Not attacking civilians, not conducting mass surveillance on the populace, not fighting preemptive wars in the first place, etc. are all decent ways of avoiding this. Blaming the messengers is foolish, even generously assuming you're correct. Which, again, you have no evidence of.