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Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London

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

An Anonymous Coward writes:

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 DeathMonkey on Thursday April 11 2019, @06:32PM (3 children)

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Thursday April 11 2019, @06:32PM (#828159) Journal

    On Aug 2 they knew where the emails came from and on Aug 10 they started repeating something they knew was false. AKA, they lied.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 11 2019, @06:58PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 11 2019, @06:58PM (#828178)

    It's called receiving new information. They assumed hackers because that's what was in the news... Then Assange (who would know) implied otherwise, so like sane people they listened to him. The only person who could be lying is Assange, which seems unlikely to me but definitely possible.

    Can't believe you are trying to double down on this fake news.

    Then there is the Kim Dotcom megaupload angle...

    • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 11 2019, @07:16PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 11 2019, @07:16PM (#828194)

      This one is just strange:

      I know that Seth Rich was involved in the DNC leak.

      I know this because in late 2014 a person contacted me about helping me to start a branch of the Internet Party in the United States. He called himself Panda. I now know that Panda was Seth Rich.

      Panda advised me that he was working on voter analytics tools and other technologies that the Internet Party may find helpful.

      I communicated with Panda on a number of topics including corruption and the influence of corporate money in politics.

        “He wanted to change that from the inside.”

      I was referring to what I knew when I did an interview with Bloomberg in New Zealand in May 2015. In that interview I hinted that Julian Assange and Wikileaks would release information about Hillary Clinton in the upcoming election.

      The Rich family has reached out to me to ask that I be sensitive to their loss in my public comments. That request is entirely reasonable.

      I have consulted with my lawyers. I accept that my full statement should be provided to the authorities and I am prepared to do that so that there can be a full investigation. My lawyers will speak with the authorities regarding the proper process.

      If my evidence is required to be given in the United States I would be prepared to do so if appropriate arrangements are made. I would need a guarantee from Special Counsel Mueller, on behalf of the United States, of safe passage from New Zealand to the United States and back. In the coming days we will be communicating with the appropriate authorities to make the necessary arrangements. In the meantime, I will make no further comment.

      http://kim.com/ [kim.com]

      What actual proof does he have?