{"id":370392,"date":"2018-07-22T09:09:11","date_gmt":"2018-07-22T08:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-ecuador-about-to-hand-over-assange-to-uk-report\/"},"modified":"2018-07-22T09:09:11","modified_gmt":"2018-07-22T08:09:11","slug":"presstv-ecuador-about-to-hand-over-assange-to-uk-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-ecuador-about-to-hand-over-assange-to-uk-report\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-Ecuador about to hand over Assange to UK: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>A source close to Ecuador\u2019s government has reportedly confirmed that the country\u2019s President Lenin Moreno has nearly reached a deal with the United Kingdom to hand over WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange \u2014 who has taken refuge in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London \u2014 \u201cwithin the next several weeks.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Intercept\u2019s investigative journalist Glenn Greenwald anonymously cited the source as making the revelation exclusively to the website on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMoreno is close to finalizing, if he has not already finalized, an agreement to hand over Assange to the UK within the next several weeks,\u201d Greenwald wrote, citing information obtained from the source. \u201cThe withdrawal of asylum and physical ejection of Assange could come as early as this week.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The reported settlement with British authorities is expected to be finalized during Moreno\u2019s trip to London for a world disabilities summit on July 24, according to Greenwald.<\/p>\n<p>Assange has&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/07\/22\/568845\/Julian-Assange-Ecuador-hand-over-Glenn-Greenwald\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A source close to Ecuador\u2019s government has reportedly confirmed that the country\u2019s President Lenin Moreno has nearly reached a deal with the United Kingdom to hand over WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange \u2014 who has taken refuge in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London \u2014 \u201cwithin the next several weeks.\u201d The Intercept\u2019s investigative journalist Glenn Greenwald anonymously [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-370392","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}