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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
(Score: 3, Informative) by sjames on Thursday April 11 2019, @06:44PM
That's the party line, but it doesn't track.
The charges in Sweden were investigated in Sweden, found to be baseless, so he was told he was free to go. So he went. The whole thing was exactly one of those "I consented, but I didn't CONSENT consent" matters that have drew such criticism on U.S. college campuses. Then in a procedure that Swedish authorities have since called irregular and improper, a Swedish prosecutor suddenlt decided to reanimate the dead issue and demand that he return to Sweden, and started the whole extradition.
Assange believed the whole thing at that point was a thinly veiled ploy to extradite him to the U.S. for a little creative extra-legal justice so he took asylum.
And here, years later, before the ink is even dry on the order withdrawing that asylum, it looks like he's U.S.A. bound, just as he predicted/feared.
As for his behavior while in the Embassy, it's called "stir crazy" and he is far from the first person to have that condition.