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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
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 11 2019, @04:00PM (1 child)
Well, the fact that this stuff is all new. Chelsea Manning was only brought in for grand jury testimony a few months ago. If they had been planning this 10 years ago they would have squeezed her when it could have been part of a plea bargain. Now that Obama commuted her sentence not only can she plead the 5th (which she could not do if he had pardoned her) the worst they can do is hold her in contempt as long as the grand jury is empaneled and given that the feds have filed charges on assange the grand jury is no longer necessary.
I used to believe that. But now I've got experience with people like assange. They will grasp at any excuse to deny their own culpability. They are shameless liars. Anything bad is always the result of a conspiracy against them. They are pure as the driven snow, anybody who challenges them is corrupt.
Remember how we all rallied around Hans Reiser? We should have learned our lesson then.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by RandomFactor on Thursday April 11 2019, @04:49PM
This is incorrect. The charge he assisted with hacking/gaining access is based on chat logs with (then) Bradley Manning showing he assisted with the hacking, these have been public for years.
Here's an article on it from 2011 that shows the relevant conversation m=top" rel="url2html-8353">http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2011/12/military-assange-manning-collaborated-in-chats.html?gtm=top>m=top
There may be more that isn't public, but this is sufficient to show he was not merely a passive receiver.
Now you can argue it is unequal enforcement, that justice isn't blind, it's just deep state bent noses, that this shouldn't be pursued, that Trump should pardon him, etc. etc. and I would likely agree depending on specifics.
However the legal bar has been met.
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