{"id":36164,"date":"2018-07-22T07:26:26","date_gmt":"2018-07-22T12:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36164"},"modified":"2018-07-22T07:26:26","modified_gmt":"2018-07-22T12:26:26","slug":"ecuador-will-imminently-withdraw-asylum-for-julian-assange-and-hand-him-over-to-the-uk-what-comes-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36164","title":{"rendered":"Ecuador Will Imminently Withdraw Asylum for Julian Assange and Hand Him Over to the UK. What Comes Next?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ecuador Will Imminently Withdraw Asylum for Julian Assange and Hand Him Over to the UK. What Comes Next?<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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ECUADOR\u2019S PRESIDENT<\/u> Lenin Moreno traveled to London\u00a0on Friday for\u00a0the ostensible purpose\u00a0of speaking at the 2018\u00a0Global Disabilities\u00a0Summit<\/a>\u00a0(Moreno has been\u00a0using a wheelchair\u00a0since being shot in a 1998 robbery attempt). The concealed, actual purpose of the President\u2019s trip is to meet with British officials to finalize an agreement under which Ecuador will withdraw its asylum protection of Julian Assange, in place since 2012, eject him from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, and then hand over\u00a0the WikiLeaks founder\u00a0to British\u00a0authorities.<\/p>\n

Moreno\u2019s itinerary also notably includes a trip to Madrid, where he will meet with Spanish officials still seething over<\/a> Assange\u2019s\u00a0denunciation of human rights abuses perpetrated by\u00a0Spain\u2019s central government\u00a0against protesters marching for\u00a0Catalonia independence. Almost three months ago, Ecuador blocked Assange<\/a> from accessing the internet, and Assange has not been able to communicate with the outside world ever since. The primary factor<\/a> in Ecuador\u2019s decision to silence him was Spanish anger over Assange\u2019s tweets about Catalonia.<\/p>\n

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Presidential decree signed on July 17 by Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno, outlining his trip to London and Madrid<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

A source close to the Ecuadorian Foreign Ministry and the President\u2019s 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. On Friday, RT reported<\/a>\u00a0that Ecuador was preparing to enter into such an agreement.<\/p>\n

The consequences of such an agreement depend in part on the concessions Ecuador extracts in exchange for withdrawing Assange\u2019s asylum.<\/p>\n

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Ecuador Will Imminently Withdraw Asylum for Julian Assange and Hand Him Over to the UK. What Comes Next? Photo: Niklas Halle’n\/AFP\/Getty Images ECUADOR\u2019S PRESIDENT Lenin Moreno traveled to London\u00a0on Friday for\u00a0the ostensible purpose\u00a0of speaking at the 2018\u00a0Global Disabilities\u00a0Summit\u00a0(Moreno has been\u00a0using a wheelchair\u00a0since being shot in a 1998 robbery attempt). The concealed, actual purpose of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[16857,8739,5437,2001,5567,2080],"class_list":["post-36164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-asylum","tag-ecuador","tag-glenn-greenwald","tag-julian-assange","tag-the-intercept","tag-united-kingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36165,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36164\/revisions\/36165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}