A source close to Ecuador’s government has reportedly confirmed that the country’s President Lenin Moreno has nearly reached a deal with the United Kingdom to hand over WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange — who has taken refuge in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London — “within the next several weeks.”
The Intercept’s investigative journalist Glenn Greenwald anonymously cited the source as making the revelation exclusively to the website on Saturday.
“Moreno is close to finalizing, if he has not already finalized, an agreement to hand over Assange to the UK within the next several weeks,” Greenwald wrote, citing information obtained from the source. “The withdrawal of asylum and physical ejection of Assange could come as early as this week.”
The reported settlement with British authorities is expected to be finalized during Moreno’s trip to London for a world disabilities summit on July 24, according to Greenwald.
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