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posted by FatPhil on Thursday April 11 2019, @01:22PM   Printer-friendly
from the shoulda-taken-the-tea-chest-option-years-back dept.

Breaking: Met police confirm that Julian Assange has been arrested at the Ecuadorian embassy.

Mr Assange took refuge in the embassy seven years ago to avoid extradition to Sweden over a sexual assault case that has since been dropped.

The Met Police said he was arrested for failing to surrender to the court.

Ecuador's president Lenin Moreno said it withdrew Mr Assange's asylum after his repeated violations to international conventions.

But WikiLeaks tweeted that Ecuador had acted illegally in terminating Mr Assange's political asylum "in violation of international law".

[...] Scotland Yard said it was invited into the embassy by the ambassador, following the Ecuadorian government's withdrawal of asylum.

After his arrest for failing to surrender to the court, police said he had been further arrested on behalf of US authorities under an extradition warrant.

He doesn't look happy, to say the least.

Update: As this is a breaking story, more information is coming out regularly - one source that updates their reports frequently is Zero Hedge - thanks boru!

Previously: New Analysis of Swedish Police Report Confirms Julian Assange's Version in Sweden's Case
Ecuador Reportedly Almost Ready to Hand Julian Assange Over to UK Authorities
UK Said Assange Would Not be Extradited If He Leaves Embassy Refuge
Inadvertent Court Filing Suggests that the U.S. DoJ is Preparing to Indict Julian Assange
U.S. Ramping Up Probe Against Julian Assange, WikiLeaks Says
Ecuador Denies That Julian Assange Will be Evicted From Embassy in London


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  • (Score: 2) by ledow on Thursday April 11 2019, @02:39PM

    by ledow (5567) on Thursday April 11 2019, @02:39PM (#827955) Homepage

    Ecuador made a deal with the UK

    On learning that the UK were arresting him for a DEFINITE UK crime committed on UK soil against UK courts, the UK then received a legal request from the US that the US said ages ago they would be filing.

    He now goes to court to argue why they shouldn't comply with that request. And he might be extradited AFTER he's convicted and served his time in the UK (I'm not sure the UK can say to the US "Keep him another year to serve out the UK sentence too, then we don't have to move him around" but I may be wrong).

    It's by no means a done-deal, but why the UK should be tarnished when they could have done a LOT worse, totally legally, and certainly a ton more highly illegally, I can't fathom. They are the ones sticking to the exact letter of their laws. They sent the Swedish extradition requests back THREE TIMES before they even bothered to try and arrest him first-time-around. And he's cost them a fortune in policing costs on a crime that he definitely, absolutely, 100% committed against them (skipping bail).

    The UK is just the middle-man here. Sure, the other two are our allies (well... at least until Brexit for one of them, but I assume we have other agreements in place with them). But from what I see we aren't aiding either or them - if anything we're being absolute pains in the butt making sure they dot their i's and cross their t's.

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