Lenín Moreno decides to hand over founder of Wikileaks
Ecuador's President Lenín Moreno confirmed on Wednesday, the 15th, that he will ask WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to leave the country's embassy in London. "If the British government guarantees that Julian Assange will not be in danger for the time it takes to be extradited to another country, we will ask him to leave our embassy in London and face the English justice system," Moreno said in a statement released by the Ecuadorian government on social media.
247 - Ecuador's president, Lenín Moreno, confirmed on Wednesday, the 15th, that he will ask WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to leave the country's embassy in London.
"If the British government guarantees that Julian Assange will not be in danger during the time it takes for him to be extradited to another country, we will ask him to leave our embassy in London and face the English justice system," Moreno said in a statement released by the Ecuadorian government. social media.
Assange has been living in the Ecuadorian embassy in London since June 2012, when he received asylum to avoid extradition to Sweden to be questioned about allegations of sexual crimes, which he has always denied.
Since then, those allegations have been withdrawn, but Assange would be arrested by British police if he left the embassy for violating bail conditions.
Assange believes that this arrest would lead to his extradition to the United States for publishing a series of American diplomatic and military secrets on the WikiLeaks website.
President Lenín Moreno has already described Assange's situation as "untenable" and "a thorn in his side."