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Julian Assange Arrested in London After Ecuador Withdraws Asylum

Ecuador’s Embassy in London where Wikileaks founder Julian Assange lived until his arrest on Thursday. Photo: Alastair Grant/AP JULIAN ASSANGE, the Wikileaks founder, was arrested on Thursday by London’s Metropolitan Police service, which said in a statement officers were “invited into the embassy by the Ambassador, following the

WikiLeaks Warns That Julian Assange Faces Imminent Eviction

Photo: Julian Assange By Oscar Grenfell WikiLeaks today issued a warning that its founder, Julian Assange, faces imminent eviction from Ecuador’s London embassy, where he sought political asylum in 2012. The publishing organisation indicated that he would then be arrested by the British police. A

#Unity4J Emergency Public Meeting and Unveiling of Non-Violent Digital Action Plan

International media are reporting that WikiLeaks Editor-in-Chief may imminently be handed by Ecuador to UK authorities. (Ref: https://disobedientmedia.com/2018/07/… over-of-julian-assange-to-the-uk-may-be-imminent/) If such an event occurs, it presents an immediate threat to Assange’s human rights, asylum rights, liberty and to press freedoms. It would also be in