{"id":66167,"date":"2019-04-11T13:26:37","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T12:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=66167"},"modified":"2019-04-11T13:26:37","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T12:26:37","slug":"british-police-arrests-wikileaks-founder-julian-assange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/british-police-arrests-wikileaks-founder-julian-assange\/","title":{"rendered":"British Police Arrests WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange\u2019s nearly seven-year stay at Ecuador\u2019s embassy in London came to an abrupt end on Thursday when police entered the building and arrested him after Ecuador withdrew his asylum.Assange has been living at the embassy in London\u2019s plush Knightsbridge district since 2012 when he sought refuge there after being accused of sexual assault in Sweden \u2014 allegations that have since been dropped.<\/p>\n<p>Footage shot by Ruptly, a video news agency, showed a frantic-looking Assange, with a large white beard, being carried down the embassy steps by several men into a police van.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can confirm that Julian Assange is now in police custody and rightly facing justice in the UK,\u201d British Home Secretary Sajid Javid said on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo one is above the law,\u201d he wrote, thanking Ecuador for its \u201ccooperation\u201d in the long-running case.<\/p>\n<p>WikiLeaks accused Ecuador of breaching international law by withdrawing his asylum and said the country\u2019s ambassador to London had \u201cinvited\u201d police into the embassy building to carry out the arrest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEcuador has illegally terminated Assange political asylum in violation of international law,\u201d the whistleblowing website said on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>Russia accused Britain of \u201cstrangling freedom\u201d with Assange\u2019s arrest, in a Facebook message by foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova.<\/p>\n<p>The 47-year-old Australian was due to appear in court later on Thursday. He faces prosecution for breaching the conditions of his bail in Britain in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>He had refused to leave the embassy, fearing ultimate extradition to the United States where WikiLeaks said he faces charges over his website publishing huge caches of hacked State Department and Pentagon files.<\/p>\n<p>WikiLeaks had warned last week that a revocation of Assange\u2019s asylum could happen within \u201chours to days\u201d, citing sources in Ecuador.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Truman Show\u2019 in embassy<br \/>\nWikiLeaks on Wednesday had claimed that it was being blackmailed by \u201cdubious characters\u201d who had obtained security camera footage of Assange inside the embassy.<\/p>\n<p>Kristinn Hrafnsson, editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks, accused Ecuador authorities of gathering the images, which he said then found their way into the hands of a group in Spain, who were demanding $3 million (2.7 million euros) not to publish them.<\/p>\n<p>The documents include thousands of photographs and gigabytes of video footage showing Assange meeting with lawyers and visitors and of him receiving a medical check-up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince (President Lenin) Moreno took power in Ecuador (in 2017), Julian Assange has been living in a Truman Show type situation\u201d with constant surveillance, Hrafnsson claimed.<\/p>\n<p>The editor also accused embassy staff of photocopying a legal document belonging to Assange\u2019s lawyer Aitor Martinez.<\/p>\n<p>WikiLeaks believes that the United States is working with Ecuador to extradite Assange to face charges and that the embassy documents were \u201cquite likely shared with the Trump administration\u201d, although it offered no proof of this.<\/p>\n<p>Ecuador had said on Tuesday it was reassessing Assange\u2019s asylum claim.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange\u2019s nearly seven-year stay at Ecuador\u2019s embassy in London came to an abrupt end on Thursday when police entered the building and arrested him after Ecuador withdrew&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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