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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   
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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Original Submission

• Re:What about the deadman switch? Re:What about the deadman switch? (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 11 2019, @08:12PM (7 children)

  by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 11 2019, @08:12PM (#828226)

  There's a bunch of them:
  https://steemit.com/wikileaks/@ausbitbank/how-to-download-the-wikileaks-archives-insurance-files-email-leaks-for-safe-keeping [steemit.com]

  I'm more wondering whatever happened to Anthony Weiner's laptop:

  “They found State Department emails. They found a lot of other really damning criminal information, including money laundering, including the fact that Hillary went to this sex island with convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. Bill Clinton went there more than 20 times. Hillary Clinton went there at least six times,” he said.

  “The amount of garbage that they found in these emails, of criminal activity by Hillary, by her immediate circle, and even by other Democratic members of Congress was so disgusting they gave it to the FBI, and they said, ‘We’re going to go public with this if you don’t reopen the investigation and you don’t do the right thing with timely indictments,’” Prince explained.

  “I believe – I know, and this is from a very well-placed source of mine at 1PP, One Police Plaza in New York – the NYPD wanted to do a press conference announcing the warrants and the additional arrests they were making in this investigation, and they’ve gotten huge pushback, to the point of coercion, from the Justice Department, with the Justice Department threatening to charge someone that had been unrelated in the accidental heart attack death of Eric Garner almost two years ago. That’s the level of pushback the Obama Justice Department is doing against actually seeking justice in the email and other related criminal matters,” Prince said.

  https://www.breitbart.com/radio/2016/11/04/erik-prince-nypd-ready-make-arrests-weiner-case/ [breitbart.com]

  All this crap gets memoryholed so easy.

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• Re:What about the deadman switch? (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 11 2019, @08:41PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 11 2019, @08:41PM (#828246)

  All this crap gets memoryholed so easy.

  Speaking of that, is this whole thing being orchestrated as a distraction from Brexit?

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• Re:What about the deadman switch? Re:What about the deadman switch? (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 11 2019, @08:57PM (5 children)

  by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 11 2019, @08:57PM (#828256)

  Here we are, more than two years later and Donny "Lock her up" Trumpster has had control of the DOJ and FBI for most of that time.

  How come there haven't been those mass arrests based on the Wiener laptop that the FBI supposedly has.

  I'll also note that all the "information" in your quote was anonymously sourced. Gee, I wonder why?

  Man! You're either incredibly gullible or are promoting a narrative that supports your "side."

  If there's info on that laptop that shows criminal activity by Clinton or anyone else, I want to know about it and I want all culpable parties prosecuted, regardless of their party affiliation, to the fullest extent of the law. And *I* voted for HRC.

  If there was anything there, the Trump DOJ would have been all over it.

  You're either a shill, a moron or both.

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  • Re:What about the deadman switch? Re:What about the deadman switch? (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 11 2019, @09:16PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 11 2019, @09:16PM (#828270)

    I would never vote for a republicrat. It seems like every single thing they say is a lie.

    I do hope some of them go on trial for their crimes though.

    How come there haven't been those mass arrests based on the Wiener laptop that the FBI supposedly has.

    Supposedly they are waiting for:
    1) Mueller to finish because it would get characterized as "obstruction"
    2) To use as talking points for the 2020 election
    3) To appoint more (supreme court and other) judges (look at what happened with that Smollet guy...)

    But maybe it is all BS, just like the russia collusion "scandal" is BS. Just more fake news to district everyone as they insider trade, etc.

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    • Re:What about the deadman switch? Re:What about the deadman switch? (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 12 2019, @01:05AM (3 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 12 2019, @01:05AM (#828414)

      I would never vote for a republicrat. It seems like every single thing they say is a lie.

      You said it brother!

      That's why I always vote for the Demoblicans. They're trustworthy motherfuckers!

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      • Re:What about the deadman switch? Re:What about the deadman switch? (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 12 2019, @01:17AM (2 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 12 2019, @01:17AM (#828415)

        No, they are just as bad. Exactly as bad, in fact.

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        • Re:What about the deadman switch? Re:What about the deadman switch? (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 12 2019, @02:45AM (1 child)

          by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 12 2019, @02:45AM (#828442)

          That you took me seriously and/or didn't realize I was mocking ignorant morons just like you is rather disturbing.

          Sigh.

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          • Re:What about the deadman switch? (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 12 2019, @02:53AM

            by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 12 2019, @02:53AM (#828445)

            What about my post makes you think I wasn't mocking an ignorant moron like you?

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