Julian Assange arrested [Video]
15:04, 11.04.2019

British media has released video footage of detention of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. The British police have arrested Julian Assange at the Ecuadorian embassy in London today.

Assange took refuge in the embassy seven years ago to avoid extradition to Sweden.

Ecuador’s president Lenin Moreno said it withdrew Assange’s asylum after his repeated violations of international conventions. Moreno said that he had asked Britain to guarantee that Assange would not be extradited to a country where he could face torture or the death penalty.

Assange took refuge in 2012 in Ecuador’s London embassy, behind the luxury department store Harrods, to avoid being extradited to Sweden, where authorities wanted to question him as part of a sexual assault investigation. Sweden later dropped the investigation, but Assange was arrested on Thursday for breaking the rules of his original bail in London. He feared being extradited to face charges in the United States, where federal prosecutors are investigating WikiLeaks.





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