Julian Assange has been arrested on a US extradition warrant, London police confirm
was arrested inside the embassy of Ecuador in London Thursday on what his lawyer said was an extradition request from the United States.to take Assange into custody on a 2012 British warrant for bail jumping after the Ecuadorian government's withdrawal of asylum., Ecuadorian president Lenin Moreno said his country's patience for Assange's behavior "has reached its limit."
The Justice Department inadvertently revealed the existence of a sealed criminal case against Assange in a court filing last year. It’s not clear what he’s been accused of. Separately, he has been under U.S. Justice Department scrutiny for years for WikiLeaks’ role in publishing thousands of government secrets.
Moreno, the Ecuadorian president, did not specifically confirm that Assange would be extradited to the U.S., saying only that he"will not be extradited to a country where he could suffer torture or the death penalty."He said the British government confirmed that in writing.
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