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Ecuador Will Be Handing Assange Over To UK Authorities 'In Coming Weeks Or Days': RT (express.co.uk) 467

Ecuador is planning to hand over WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to UK authorities in the "coming weeks or even days," RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan said, citing her own sources. Simonyan reported the news in a recent tweet, which was reposted by WikiLeaks. Slashdot reader Okian Warrior first shared the news. Daily Express reports: Foreign Office minister Sir Alan Duncan is said to be involved in the diplomatic effort, which has come weeks ahead of a visit by new Ecuadorian president, Lenin Moreno, who called Mr Assange an "inherited problem." He also referred to the exiled WikiLeaks founder as a "stone in the shoe." Sources close to Assange claim he was not aware of the talks, but believe America is piling "significant pressure" on Ecuador to give him up, according to the Sunday Times. The sources claim that America has threatened to block a loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) if he is not removed from the embassy, based in Knightsbridge, west London. UPDATE 7/21/18: The Intercept also confirmed the news. Glen Greenwald, former reporter for The Guardian, writes: "A source close to the Ecuadorian Foreign Ministry and the President's office, unauthorized to speak publicly, has confirmed to the Intercept that Moreno is close to finalizing, if he has not already finalized, an agreement to hand over Assange to the UK within the next several weeks. The withdrawal of asylum and physical ejection of Assange could come as early as this week."
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Ecuador Will Be Handing Assange Over To UK Authorities 'In Coming Weeks Or Days': RT

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  • by b0s0z0ku ( 752509 ) on Saturday July 21, 2018 @09:01AM (#56984958)

    Before the Clinton emails, remember that Assange did the world a big service by leaking civilian death logs in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as videos of war crimes by US troops. The world needed to know how disproportionate the US response after 9/11 was -- the US needs to know that the world is watching whenever it starts another military homicide spree.

    Sad day if he's being railroaded at the US's request, though the source (RT) is somewhat suspect.

    • Re: (Score:2, Insightful)

      When he was leaking things that made Bush look bad you loved Julian Assange so hard that Benedict Cumberbatch played him in the movie.

      By reporting our government's fuckups, Wikileaks has taken a rather extreme pro-America attitude and is basically doing the job that our own media ought to be doing. Wikileaks is the enemy of America's enemy. Maybe he's not really our friend, but if you adopt the point of view of us American citizens, you'll see that he sure appears to be either a friend, or even one of us.

  • I heard 5 months and 4 days.
  • RT is known as a propaganda outlet and is state-owned by Russia. This doesn't even rate to the level of published by RT, but is a tweet from the RT editor-in-chief saying anonymous sources told her.

    Not sure this should rate comment at this point.
  • These Brits, they put everything non-UK outside...
  • The sources claim that America has threatened to block a loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) if he is not removed from the embassy, based in Knightsbridge, west London.

    Bitcoin, Litecoin, Dogecoin, Reddcoin, Monero, Dash, etc. to the rescue!

    • I think you'll have a hard time convincing the IMF to make payments in Bitcoin. Christine Lagarde is essentially the USA's stooge within that organisation. She spent much of her formative life studying and working in the US and is very much of the Washington political ilk. BTW, she failed her entrance exam to study as a senior civil servant in France, which may explain a lot. It would seem it's easier to get away with bullshitting your way into power in Washington than in Paris.
  • Coincidence (Score:5, Interesting)

    by hcs_$reboot ( 1536101 ) on Saturday July 21, 2018 @10:17AM (#56985296)
    This happening a few days after Trump visit to the UK, while May needs to find new friends for the post-brexit.
  • RT - Russia Today (Score:5, Informative)

    by Torodung ( 31985 ) on Saturday July 21, 2018 @02:43PM (#56986530) Journal
    Hi. You should not listen to a thing RT has to say, and I wish Slashdot wouldn't okay articles sourced to them. They are a propaganda/disinformation outlet. I expect to be modded down by Russians now, so mods, I hope you're scanning at -1.

"I've seen the forgeries I've sent out." -- John F. Haugh II (jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US), about forging net news articles

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