{"id":402620,"date":"2019-04-03T23:22:37","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T22:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/ecuadorian-president-threatens-to-evict-julian-assange-from-london-embassy\/"},"modified":"2019-04-03T23:22:37","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T22:22:37","slug":"ecuadorian-president-threatens-to-evict-julian-assange-from-london-embassy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/ecuadorian-president-threatens-to-evict-julian-assange-from-london-embassy\/","title":{"rendered":"Ecuadorian president threatens to evict Julian Assange from London embassy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>Ecuadorian president threatens to evict Julian Assange from London embassy<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Oscar Grenfell<br \/>\n    <br \/>3 April 2019<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>In a clear threat to expel Julian Assange from Ecuador\u2019s London embassy, the country\u2019s president, Len\u00edn Moreno, declared in an interview yesterday that the WikiLeaks founder had \u201crepeatedly violated the conditions of his asylum.\u201d Moreno stated that his government would \u201ctake a decision&#8230; in the short term\u201d on Assange\u2019s circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>The comments are the latest public indication of an advanced conspiracy to force Assange out of the embassy, where he sought political asylum in 2012, and into the clutches of the British and US authorities.<\/p>\n<div class=\"imageRight\" style=\"width:200px; oveflow:hidden;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/asset\/ab2ae686-6ae3-487d-99f4-27f054193d0E\/image.jpg?rendition=image480\" srcset=\"\/asset\/ab2ae686-6ae3-487d-99f4-27f054193d0E\/image.jpg?rendition=image960 2x\" width=\"200\" style=\"width:200px;\" \/><\/div>\n<p>If he leaves the building, or is expelled from it, Assange will be arrested by British authorities on trumped-up bail charges. Assange would likely face extradition to the US over concocted espionage or conspiracy charges, carrying a maximum sentence of life imprisonment or the death penalty, for his role in WikiLeaks\u2019 exposure of war crimes, illegal diplomatic intrigues and mass surveillance.<\/p>\n<p>In the interview with the Ecuadorian Radio Broadcasters\u2019 Association, Moreno made unsubstantiated and slanderous claims that Assange had been \u201chacking&#8230; private accounts\u201d and \u201cphones.\u201d He blamed the WikiLeaks founder for a corruption scandal currently engulfing his government.<\/p>\n<p>Moreno\u2019s allegation that Assange had \u201cviolated the conditions of his asylum\u201d was a reference to a draconian \u201cprotocol\u201d imposed on the WikiLeaks founder by the Ecuadorian government last October, following the shut-off of his internet access and the severe curtailing of his right to receive visitors in March, 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The Ecuadorian president restated the terms of the protocol, forbidding Assange from making any political comments,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2019\/04\/03\/assa-a03.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Ecuadorian president threatens to evict Julian Assange from London embassy By Oscar Grenfell 3 April 2019 In a clear threat to expel Julian Assange from Ecuador\u2019s London embassy, the country\u2019s president, Len\u00edn Moreno, declared in an interview yesterday that the WikiLeaks founder had \u201crepeatedly violated the conditions of his asylum.\u201d Moreno stated that his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-402620","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}