Wikileaks founder Julian Assange was arrested on Thursday in London in the Embassy of Ecuador by the British police. Born in Australia, lived there for almost seven years in self-imposed exile.

The 47-Year-old wanted to escape an arrest, and he feared extradition to the United States or to Sweden. Before the arrest, the government of Ecuador Assange withdrew the diplomatic asylum, on the grounds that he had breached the rules. The British police informed the Ambassador have invited you in the message””.

Always more problems in the message

Assange had more and more problems in his Embassy asylum. Thus, it was governed by a behavior Protocol, among other things, his contact with the outside world. He was urged, no political Statements to make and to keep the bathroom clean. In two letters, which Wikileaks published on Monday, urged the Ambassador Assange, because the “heard disturbing according to” Radio and a lamp, a surveillance camera got blinded.

Assange had once announced his exile and to go voluntarily to the USA, in case of Whistleblower Chelsea Manning to come free. It applies to revelations as a source for some of the most famous early Wikileaks. As Manning left after the previous pardon by the then-US President Barack Obama in may 2017, the prison, celebrated Assange this as a victory – he remained in the Embassy.

the reason for the asylum withdrawal by Ecuador was, apparently, the publication of sensitive documents by Wikileaks, pointing to a bribe scandal in the environment of the Ecuadorian President.

Is there even a US indictment?

it was Unclear so far, whether it is in the USA at all an indictment of Assange and what he’s been accused in the case. In mid-November of 2018, but it was known that assange’s Name turned up well, accidentally in a U.S. court document.

The Passage suggested that there is already an indictment, but which is kept under lock and key, so that the Wikileaks founder weighs in safety.

crimes by US troops

Wikileaks began with the publication of secret US files that documented, among other things, human rights violations and the killing of civilians by American troops in Afghanistan.

the Last stand Wikileaks, but especially in the focus of U.S. investigations, because the unveiling of the website in the presidential campaign of 2016, the stolen E-published Mails from the democratic party. US authorities assume that the E-downloaded Mails from Russian hackers and Wikileaks were leaked. This aspect has also stated FBI special investigator Robert Mueller in his final report about the alleged Russian interference in the Donald Trump won presidential election.

Assange describes himself as a Journalist, and claimed, therefore, for the media, the usual protective clauses, when it comes to the confidentiality of sources and the publication of confidential information. Critics consider him a self-promoter, and have even endangered lives. His followers see him as a scout.

escaped Feared extradition to the United States

As Assange in the diplomatic representation, was against him a European arrest warrant for rape allegations in Sweden. He was afraid he would be first to Scandinavia, and finally extradited to the United States. In may 2017, the public Prosecutor’s office in Sweden, however, their investigations.

in order for Assange, however, was still not a free man. Scotland Yard announced that the unveiling of activists to be arrested as soon as he leave the Embassy. The British authorities accused him to have his bail conditions violated, as he took refuge in the Embassy. An attempt of the lawyers of assange, the arrest warrant of a court to declare invalid, failed.

reactions from Wikileaks and from Moscow

The unveiling platform has responded to the arrest. Wikileaks has referred to the withdrawal of diplomatic asylum to its founder, Julian Assange, as “illegal” and as a violation of international Law branded.

Moscow has criticised the arrest of Assange with sharp words. “The Hand of the ‘democracy’ strangling the freedom,” wrote the spokeswoman for the Russian foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, on Thursday in the online service Facebook.

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Created: 11.04.2019, 12:58 PM

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