Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has been arrested by officers from the Metropolitan Police Service at the Embassy of Ecuador in London, the Met Police said in a statement on Thursday.
“He has been taken into custody at a central London police station where he will remain, before being presented before Westminster Magistrates’ Court as soon as is possible,” the statement reads.
Ecuador has decided to withdraw diplomatic asylum from Assange, who has been holing up at the country’s embassy in London, Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno said on Thursday.
“Ecuador has made a sovereign decision to withdraw diplomatic asylum from Julian Assange over regular violations of international conventions,” Moreno wrote on Twitter.