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Ecuador’s President Lenin Moreno confirmed that the country is in talks with Britain to end Wikileaks’ founder Julian Assange’s six-year stay at the South American country’s London embassy.
Assange’s legal team is reportedly making preparations for his eviction in “hours, days or weeks,” according to a report in Britain’s Sunday Times. On Friday, Moreno suggested that it might not be too sudden, saying Assange’s expulsion must be carried out correctly and through dialogue, the Telegraph said. But he made clear his sympathy for Assange – if he ever had any – has run out.
“I have never agreed with the interventions in people’s private emails in order to obtain information, however valuable it may be, to bring out certain undesirable acts of governments or people,” the Telegraph quoted him as saying.
Assange originally sought asylum to avoid extradition to Sweden, where he faced allegations of sex crimes. Those claims have since been dropped. But he still faces arrest in Britain for violating conditions of his bail and he still fears he’ll be extradited to the US for publishing diplomatic and military secrets on Wikileaks.
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