BREAKING: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange arrested at Ecuadorian embassy
Assange has been holed up in the building since 2012, when he claimed political asylum.On Wednesday, Ecuador’s foreign minister Jose Valencia said he could not stay there indefinitely.Assange took to the building in Knightsbridge in self-imposed exile while he fought sex allegations in Sweden that were later dropped.
On Wednesday, WikiLeaks accused the Ecuadorian government of spying on Assange as tensions mounted between the founder and his hosts.The group’s editor-in-chief, Kristinn Hrafnsson, told a news conference that Assange’s meetings with lawyers and a doctor had been secretly filmed by Ecuadorian authorities.
He said he was fearful of facing U.S. charges related to WikiLeaks’ publication of classified documents. In a statement, Scotland Yard said: ‘Julian Assange, 47, has today, Thursday 11 April, been arrested by officers from the Metropolitan Police Service at the Embassy of Ecuador on a warrant issued by Westminster Magistrates’ Court on 29 June 2012, for failing to surrender to the court.
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