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Julian Assange is in immense danger. Remarks made this week by Ecuador’s foreign minister suggest that her government may be preparing to renege on the political asylum it granted to the WikiLeaks editor in 2012 and hand him over to British and then American authorities. On March 28, under immense pressure from the governments in the US, Britain and other powers, Ecuador imposed a complete ban on Assange having any Internet or phone contact with the outside world, and blocked his friends and supporters from physically visiting him. For 45 days, he has not been heard from. Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Maria Fernanda Espinosa stated in a Spanish-language interview on Wednesday that her government and Britain “have the intention and the interest that this be resolved.” Moves were underway,
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Julian Assange is in immense danger. Remarks made this week by Ecuador’s foreign minister suggest that her government may be preparing to renege on the political asylum it granted to the WikiLeaks editor in 2012 and hand him over to British and then American authorities. On March 28, under immense pressure from the governments in the US, Britain and other powers, Ecuador imposed a complete ban on Assange having any Internet or phone contact with the outside world, and blocked his friends and supporters from physically visiting him. For 45 days, he has not been heard from. Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Maria Fernanda Espinosa stated in a Spanish-language interview on Wednesday that her government and Britain “have the intention and the interest that this be resolved.” Moves were underway,
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Julian Assange is in
immense danger. Remarks made this week by Ecuador’s foreign minister suggest
that her government may be preparing to renege on the political asylum it
granted to the WikiLeaks editor in 2012 and hand him over to British and then
American authorities.
On March 28, under immense pressure from the governments in the
US, Britain and other powers, Ecuador imposed a complete ban on Assange having
any Internet or phone contact with the outside world, and blocked his friends
and supporters from physically visiting him. For 45 days, he has not been heard
from.
Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Maria Fernanda Espinosa stated in a
Spanish-language interview on Wednesday that her government and Britain “have
the intention and the interest that this be resolved.” Moves were underway, she
said, to reach a “definite agreement” on Assange.
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