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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsEcuador Planned to Move Julian Assange to Moscow as a Diplomat
Ecuador granted citizenship to Julian Assange as part of a failed attempt to transfer the WikiLeaks founder to Russia as a diplomat, documents provided by an opposition Ecuadorian lawmaker showed.
The plan consisted in appointing Assange as an Ecuadorian diplomat to Moscow, allowing him to leave the London embassy where he sought refuge six years ago. Documents made public by legislator Paola Vintimilla showed Quito granted him citizenship on December 12, three months after he requested it and about a week after he voluntarily renounced his asylum status.
If successful, the move would allow Ecuador to put an end to a stand-off that President Lenin Moreno has called a stone in the shoe inherited by his administration. Assange fled to the Ecuadorian embassy in London in 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden, where he faced rape accusations, or to the U.S., where he would likely face sanctions for publishing secret government communications.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-17/ecuador-planned-to-move-julian-assange-to-moscow-as-a-diplomat
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Ecuador Planned to Move Julian Assange to Moscow as a Diplomat (Original Post)
orangecrush
Oct 2018
OP
Yeah, Ecuador has been trying to get rid of him for years while not losing face
Blue_Tires
Oct 2018
#1
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)1. Yeah, Ecuador has been trying to get rid of him for years while not losing face
This was first revealed a couple months ago
orangecrush
(19,617 posts)2. Assange
works for Putin.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)4. Yeah, that part isn't in dispute
I don't think even Julian bothers to deny it anymore
orangecrush
(19,617 posts)10. He helped russia interfere
in our election.
Cha
(297,655 posts)3. Assange coulda been a Diplomat! Wah! What karma
that asshole has accrued.
He made it.
wryter2000
(46,081 posts)5. Poor Ecuador
Can't someone else take him for a while?
orangecrush
(19,617 posts)8. ...
Renew Deal
(81,871 posts)6. Why do they protect him?
I never understood what their interest was to protect him
orangecrush
(19,617 posts)7. The backing
of Russia, most likely.
Cha
(297,655 posts)11. Good question and look what happened.