Demonstrators have gathered in front of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London to protest WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s possible expulsion and arrest by Metropolitan Police, following a secret agreement struck between the Lenin Moreno administration and the UK, according to a tweet released on Thursday night.
Assange, who has remained at the embassy for over seven years since fleeing charges of sexual assault by Swedish authorities.
She added that the Moreno government had been trying to expel Assange from the embassy and end his political asylum. “But what’s behind this is his administration’s rapprochement with the US government, which has a WikiLeaks grand jury for many months now who are investigating his publications dating back to 2010”.
“But it’s not good to toy with asylum rights in the way that they’re doing”, the protestor added. “There are serious repercussions for doing so, because those rights have been hard fought for, and to bend them to your will is a very dangerous thing”.