Dec 14, 2017

Prensa Latina | Dec 13, 2017 | Ecuador Ratifies Support for the Human Rights of Julian Assange | .. 'Attention! Given the rumors circulating in social networks, the Foreign Ministry reiterates that there is no change in the status of asylum for #JulianAssange. Ecuador will maintain protection as soon as his human rights are endangered,' the Foreign Ministry reported on Twitter .. | Blogger: No pressure from US?? Julian Assange will still be arrested if he leaves Ecuadorian embassy!!!... May 2017, The US authorities did not put any pressure on Swedish law enforcement in the case of Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks whistleblowing organization that released many US classified documents, prosecutor Marianne Ny, said Friday 19th of 2017. STOCKHOLM (Sputnik) — Earlier in the day, Swedish prosecutors confirmed that rape charges against Assange were dropped, following a seven-year investigation, for the large part of which Assange had been living in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, fearing that in case of the arrest in the United Kingdom or in Sweden, he might be extradited to the United States. ""There has been no pressure [from the United States]. There has been no pressure in any form,"" Ny, told reporters.... |


Quito, Dec 13 (Prensa Latina) The Ecuadorian government has confirmed that it keep protecting Australian cyber activist Julian Assange, who has remained in asylum since 2012 at the Quito embassy in London, the Foreign Ministry confirmed today.

The statement, issued through the Twitter account of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Human Mobility, responds to comments on the networks about an alleged decision of the executive to remove the WikiLeaks founder's status.
'Attention! Given the rumors circulating in social networks, the Foreign Ministry reiterates that there is no change in the status of asylum for #JulianAssange. Ecuador will maintain protection as soon as his human rights are endangered,' the Foreign Ministry reported on Twitter.
Assange, whose web portal became worldwide known after spreading thousands of classified documents, especially from the Washington administration, remains unable to leave the Ecuadorian offices, before the threats of the British authorities to apprehend him and extradite him to the United States.

The Australian had a pending process in Sweden for alleged sexual crimes, with charges never formulated, which was filed by the judicial system of that European country.

Quito asked London to grant safe conduct to the cyber-activist, taking into account the Swedish decision, but to date the petition has not been executed. With that permission, Assange could travel to Ecuador.

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