Julian Assange Is Arrested In London

[Me.]

“LONDON — Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder who released reams of secret documents that embarrassed the United States government, was arrested by the British police on Thursday at the Ecuadorean Embassy in London, where he had lived for years, after Ecuador withdrew the asylum it had granted him seven years ago.

President Lenín Moreno of Ecuador said on Twitter that his country had taken the decision to revoke the asylum status that it had granted to Mr. Assange after “his repeated violations to international conventions and daily-life protocols,” a decision that cleared the way for the British authorities to detain him.

The relationship between Mr. Assange and Ecuador has been a rocky one, even as it offered him refuge, and WikiLeaks said last Friday that Ecuador “already has an agreement with the UK for his arrest” and predicted that Mr. Assange would be expelled from the embassy “within ‘hours to days.’ ”

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/11/world/europe/julian-assange-wikileaks-ecuador-embassy.html

[irisblue]

1. About the Cat...which was my second thought....

Hadas Gold (@Hadas_Gold) Tweeted:
For those concerned about Assange’s cat (which was part of the tension w/ his Ecuadorian hosts), he reportedly gave the cat away a while ago. https://t.co/vcqgBSgQ26

Link to tweet

[denbot]

2. I would like to have him testify in front of a congressional committee.

His testimony should prove interesting. Also what will happen to his electronic devices?

[Me.]

3. I'd Like To See Him In An Adjoining Cell To Stone