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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, @09:00PM (2 children)
Come back when the United Nations agree with your case, you whiny little nazi bitch.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 11 2019, @10:13PM (1 child)
WTF are you blathering on about?
illegal (adj.) [oxforddictionaries.com]:
confinement(n) [oxforddictionaries.com]:
Let's start with "illegal." Assange was granted asylum by the government of Ecuador. A grant of asylum [wikipedia.org] is not illegal, nor is the person (in this case, Assange) granted asylum prevented from revoking such asylum. What's more, The UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights [un.org] (Section 14) states:
So. Assange was granted asylum by Ecuador. That is, according to the UN, Assange's right and perfectly legal.
On to your claim that Assange was confined [oxforddictionaries.com]. Assange was never restricted by the Ecuadorians from leaving the embassy. In fact, they've wanted him to leave for quite some time. Assange was free to leave at any time, so he was not confined.
Whatever you may think about Assange, the UK, the US and Sweden and the efforts to prosecute him, Assange was never "illegally confined" in the Ecuadorian embassy.
tl;dr: You're talking out of your ass and it smells that way too.
(Score: 2) by sjames on Friday April 12 2019, @04:07AM
He was constructively confined by the UK. Look up the legal concept of "construction".