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12:33, 25-May-2018
Julian Assange may get kicked out of Ecuadorian Embassy
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Wikileaks founder Julian Assange nearly six-year refuge at the Ecuadorian embassy in London is "in jeopardy," according to sources.
A source said that his situation is “unusually bad,” suggesting that Assange could leave “any day now.”
If the Wikileaks founder leaves the embassy, it could open the gates for the US investigators who have a number of things to discuss with him.
On the US side, it has prepared charges to seek the arrest of Assange, whom US intelligence agencies believe Russia used as an intermediary to distribute hacked emails from Hillary Clinton's campaign during the 2016 presidential election, report said.
“The concern from day one until the present is that if Julian Assange walks out of the Embassy, he will be extradited to face what the executive director of the ACLU described as an ‘unprecedented and unconstitutional’ prosecution under the US Espionage Act,” Melinda Taylor, lawyer of the Wikileaks founder, said.
Assange, the white-haired Australian behind whistleblower group Wikileaks, fled to the Ecuadorian embassy in June 2012 and has been inside the building ever since, in a bid to escape sexual assault charges in Sweden.
(Cover: Julian Assange, founder of Wikileaks, speaks to media and supporters from a balcony at the Ecuadorian embassy in London, UK, on on Friday, May 19, 2017./ VCG Photo )