"fugitive from justice Julian Assange, who initially entered on 19 June 2012 claiming diplomatic asylum, which was granted by the Ecuadorian government on 16 August 2012. He has absconded in breach of bail after dismissal of his appeal by the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom. The embassy is charged with representing the interests of the president and government of Ecuador, improving diplomatic relations between Ecuador and the accredited countries, promoting and improving the image and standing of Ecuador in the accredited nations, promoting the culture of Ecuador, encouraging and facilitating tourism to and from Ecuador, and ensuring the safety"
"May 2017, the Swedish authorities dropped their investigation against Assange, claiming they could not expect the Ecuadorian Embassy to communicate reliably with Assange with respect to the case. Chief prosecutor Marianne Ny officially revoked his arrest warrant, but said the investigation could still be resumed if Assange visited Sweden before August 2020. ""We are not making any pronouncement about guilt"", she said. On 19 June 2012, Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Ricardo Patiño announced that Assange had applied for political asylum, that his government was considering the request, and that Assange was at the Ecuadorian embassy in London. Wikileaks insiders stated that"
"afro-Ecuadorians, and ""montubios"" to the diplomatic service for the first time. Two public meritocracy-based rounds took place to select approximately 170 career diplomats that also were complaient of the gender equity concept and with the participation of national minority groups, traditionally discriminated in Ecuador. On 19 June 2012, the creator of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, appeared at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London in order to request diplomatic protection to the Ecuadorian State. He based his request on his fear that the United Kingdom would extradite him to Sweden, the country that wants to interrogate him on alleged sex crimes, and that"
"to the Swedish authorities who had requested his extradition; thus Swedish prosecutors, unwilling to break diplomatic protocol, have deferred from interrogating Assange at the Embassy of Ecuador, London. Hague confirmed the British Government's position – that it is lawfully obliged to extradite Julian Assange. ""We're disappointed by the statement by Ecuador's Foreign Minister today that Ecuador has offered political asylum to Julian Assange. Under our Laws, with Mr. Assange having exhausted all options of appeal, the British authorities are under a binding obligation to extradite him to Sweden. We must carry out that obligation and of course we fully intend"
"of those who died in the conflict. Since both countries will be doing that I don't think there is anything provocative about that."" Hague set out Her Majesty's Government plans, on 12 June 2012, for the reintroduction of self-government in the Turks and Caicos Islands, where direct rule of the Governor had been in place since the islands had been subject to corruption and maladministration under the previous autonomous administration. In August 2012, Hague declared that Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks organisation founder, would not be granted political asylum by the United Kingdom. Hague declared the UK's willingness to extradite Assange"
"Julian Assange Julian Paul Assange (; born Julian Paul Hawkins; 3 July 1971) is an Australian computer programmer, a grantee of political asylum, a fugitive from a British arrest warrant for breaching bail conditions, and the editor of WikiLeaks. Assange founded WikiLeaks in 2006, and came to international attention in 2010, when WikiLeaks published a series of leaks provided by Chelsea Manning. These leaks included the ""Collateral Murder"" video (April 2010), the Afghanistan war logs (July 2010), the Iraq war logs (October 2010), and CableGate (November 2010). Following the 2010 leaks, the federal government of the United States launched a"
"immediately"". Accordingly, Pollack maintained, the commutation—which specified Manning would be freed four months thence—did not meet Assange's conditions. On 17 May 2017, Manning was released from prison. Two days later, Assange emerged on the embassy's balcony and told a crowd that, despite no longer facing a Swedish sex investigation, he would remain inside the embassy in order to avoid extradition to the United States. On 17 October 2016, WikiLeaks announced that a ""state party"" had severed Assange's Internet connection at the Ecuadorian embassy. The Ecuadorian government stated that it had ""temporarily"" severed Assange's Internet connection because of WikiLeaks' release of"
"Assange who has been given political asylum in Ecuador's London embassy since 2012. Moreno named conditions under which Assange could stay on in the embassy, including bringing down the level of security at the embassy and no Internet access. In an interview to Deutsche Welle, Moreno denied that external pressure from other countries had influenced this decision concerning the status of Assange. Following a June 2018 visit by U.S. Vice President Mike Pence, who agreed with President Moreno to improve the US-Ecuador relations which were strained under the presidency of Rafael Correa. Ecuador launched a security effort with the United"
"British to review the case, the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention formally declined to do so in late November, saying that there was not enough new information provided to warrant such a review. Assange and his supporters have expressed concerns that upon his return to Sweden, Assange may be extradited to the United States to face charges related to his professional work, since Wikileaks has been under investigation in the US since at least 2010. On 13 January 2017, Wikileaks announced that Assange would agree to extradition to the United States if the Obama administration granted clemency to Chelsea Manning"
"August 2012, he was granted full asylum by the Ecuadorian government but has been unable to leave the embassy without being arrested. On the 24 June 2014, ""The Guardian"" reported that Assange's lawyers filed a request to Stockholm District Court to dismiss his detention, based on an update to Sweden's code of judicial procedure (1 June 2014) to conform with EU law including a new provision that those arrested or detained have the right to be made aware of ""facts forming the basis for the decision to arrest"". On 16 July 2014, the Stockholm District Court reviewed the detention order"
"for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Assange was released on bail on condition that he stayed at a fixed address – namely Ellingham Hall, which current owner Vaughan Smith offered as a temporary place of residence for him. Further information here: Ellingham, Norfolk Ellingham is a civil parish in Norfolk, England. It covers an area of and had a population of 532 in 238 households at the 2001 census, the population increasing to 554 in 248 households at the 2011 census. It lies approximately from Bungay and from Beccles. Other close towns to the village include Diss (16 miles) and Gt."
"2017, the Swedish prosecutors dropped their investigation into the rape accusation against Assange and applied to revoke the European arrest warrant. Although he is free to leave the Embassy, it is likely that he would then be arrested for the criminal offence of breaching his bail conditions. The London Metropolitan Police have indicated that an arrest warrant is still in force for Assange's failure to surrender himself to his bail. On 27 July 2018, Ecuadorian President Lenín Moreno revealed that he had begun talks with British authorities to withdraw the asylum for Assange. Julian Paul Hawkins was born on 3"
"didn't think this was anything more than just distracting."" Eventually, the plan was not pursued and, under Assange's advice, Snowden sought asylum in Russia. Paris newspaper ""Le Monde"", in its edition of 3 July 2015, published an open letter from Assange to French President François Hollande in which Assange urged the French government to grant him refugee status. Assange wrote that ""only France now has the ability to offer me the necessary protection against, and exclusively against, the political persecution that I am currently the object of."" In the letter Assange wrote, ""By welcoming me, France would fulfill a humanitarian"
"party was to be a vehicle for his candidacy for a seat in the Australian Senate in the 2013 election. On 23 March 2013 the WikiLeaks Party submitted its registrations to the Australian Electoral Commission. The party had over 1300 fee-paying members. The application was accepted and the party was registered as a political party on 2 July 2013. The party was involved in Glenn Druery's Minor Party Alliance around the 2013 federal election, but left after deciding not to preference as per Druery's advice. Assange is a native of Australia. Since July 2012 Assange has lived in the Embassy"
"limitations expiring for some of the allegations, the prosecutor relented and agreed to question Assange in the Ecuadorean embassy. The UK agreed to the interview in May awaiting Ecuadorean approval. Assange said he would go to Sweden if provided with a diplomatic guarantee that he would not be turned over to the United States, to which the Swedish foreign ministry stated that Sweden's legislation does not allow any judicial decision like extradition to be predetermined. However, the Swedish government is free to reject extradition requests from non-EU countries, independent of any court decision. Assange was arrested in his absence and"
"of limitations for this charge was not expected to expire until 2020. Swedish authorities interviewed Assange on this allegation in November 2016. On 19 May 2017, the Swedish chief prosecutor applied to the Stockholm District Court to rescind the arrest warrant for Julian Assange, effectively ceasing their investigation against Julian Assange. The case may be reinstated until the expiration of the statute of limitations. Additionally, Britain's arrest warrant pertaining to bail violations remains open. In 2013, Sweden tried to drop Assange extradition but the english Crown Prosecution Service dissuaded them from doing so. Assange presented himself to the Metropolitan Police"
"law and the protocols set out in the Vienna Convention."" On 16 August 2012, both police and protesters gathered outside the embassy, with reports of minor scuffles between the two groups and arrests of some of the protesters. On 19 August 2012, Assange made a speech from a low balcony of the embassy. Assange's remarks were prefaced by a statement from Baltasar Garzón, who is heading his legal team. This was followed by protests in Ecuador outside the British embassy in Quito, as well as support for Correa's approval of the asylum request. On 22 August 2012, the Ecuadorian President"
"Terror, curbing Iranian influence in the Yemeni Civil War, and securing the Red Sea region. At the time of Rohrabacher's proposal, Eritrea was subject to international sanctions due to its alleged support of Al-Shabaab in Somalia, and to U.S. sanctions against the Eritrean Navy following an alleged shipment of North Korean military hardware to Eritrea. In August 2017, Rohrabacher attended a meeting in London with Julian Assange organized and attended by right-wing political activist and holocaust denier Charles C. Johnson. Rohrabacher said that the discussion was about the possibility of a presidential pardon in exchange for Assange supplying information on"
"was considering using the law after Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, sought refuge in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, to avoid being extradited to Sweden where he faces allegations of sexual assault. Diplomatic and Consular Premises Act 1987 The Diplomatic and Consular Premises Act 1987 is an Act of Parliament passed by the United Kingdom Parliament which allows the UK government to determine what land is considered to be diplomatic or consular premises. The act was a result of a government review of the law related to the inviolability of diplomatic premises following the 1984 Libyan Embassy Siege. The"
"on December 7, 2010, and was remanded to London's Wandsworth Prison. On 16 December, he was granted bail with bail conditions of residence at Ellingham Hall, Norfolk, and wearing of an electronic tag. Bail was set at £240,000 surety with a deposit of £200,000 ($312,700). On release on bail, Assange said ""I hope to continue my work and continue to protest my innocence in this matter,"" and told the BBC, ""This has been a very successful smear campaign and a very wrong one."" He claimed that the extradition proceedings to Sweden were ""actually an attempt to get me into a"
"organizations such as the Inter-American Development Bank and the World Bank. In addition, the U.S. Peace Corps operates a sizable program in Ecuador. More than 100 U.S. companies are doing business in Ecuador. Relations between the two nations have been strained following Julian Assange's bid to seek political asylum in the Ecuadorian embassy in London following repeated claims that the US government was pursuing his extradition due to his work with Wikileaks. Both nations are signatories of the Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance (the ""Rio Treaty"") of 1947, the Western Hemisphere's regional mutual security treaty. Ecuador shares U.S. concern over"
"nature of what Pilger simply stated were ""lies"" – especially those that took the two countries to the invasion of Iraq"". Pilger's bail money for Assange was lost in June 2012 when a judge ordered it to be forfeited. Assange had sought to escape the jurisdiction of the English courts by entering the Embassy of Ecuador in London. Pilger visited Assange in the embassy and continues to support him. Speaking to an audience in Bali (Indonesia) in October 2012, Pilger asserted that Assange was criticised by journalists because ""he shames us"", and criticised people who pretended to be allies of"
"to be forfeited, as Assange had sought to escape the jurisdiction of the English courts by entering the embassy of Ecuador. At the Westminster magistrates court in October 2012, Smith plead on behalf of himself and eight other Assange sureties to keep their money, arguing they could not ""meaningfully intervene in this matter […] between the Ecuadorean, British, Swedish, US and Australian governments."" Smith lives at Ellingham Hall in Norfolk, England, with his wife, Pranvera, and their two daughters, Beatrice & Louise. As a freelance cameraman Smith won, either individually or as part of a team, 28 news awards. Most"
"be released, noting that anonymity orders had become ""deeply ingrained"" in court cases in the UK. After the ruling Stephens commented, ""No court henceforth should grant an anonymity order in a significant case unless it is satisfied that the litigant, if identified, would be in serious danger of physical attack."" Towards the end of 2010, Stephens was invited by the Jamaican Government to review that country's libel laws and appear before a Parliamentary Select Committee. Shortly after his return Stephens began to defend the founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, against extradition to Sweden, where allegations had been made against Assange."
"citizen requested to the Swedish justice that it take Assange’s declarations at the premises of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. Ecuador officially stated its will to ease up this interview so as not to interfere or obstruct the legal proceedings that were developing in Sweden, a measure that is legally feasible. Sweden did not accept it. On the other hand, Ecuador consulted the possibility that the Swedish government would establish guarantees so Assange would not be extradited from that country to the United States. Again, it received a negative answer. Finally, Ecuador addressed a communication to the Government of the"
"wanted for prosecution."" Judge Riddle concluded: ""I am satisfied that the specified offences are extradition offences."" Assange commented after the decision to extradite him, saying ""It comes as no surprise but is nevertheless wrong. It comes as the result of a European arrest warrant system run amok."" On 2 March 2011, Assange's lawyers lodged an appeal with the High Court challenging the decision to extradite him to Sweden. Assange remained on conditional bail. The appeal hearing took place on 12 and 13 July 2011 at the High Court in London. The judges' decision was reserved, and a written judgment was"
"on behalf of Assange, Baltasar Garzón, head of his legal team, said that Assange had sent the open letter to French president François Hollande; but Assange had only expressed his willingness ""to be hosted in France if and only if an initiative was taken by the competent authorities"". On 16 August 2016, Assange's lawyer in the UK, John Jones, was found dead, according to the first reports after being hit by a train in an apparent suicide. An inquest into his death found that the lawyer was accepted since March to a private psychiatric hospital with several issues of mental"
"""special designation"" diplomatic post in Russia – and the cover to leave the embassy and England – but the British Foreign Office did not recognise diplomatic immunity for Assange, and the effort was dropped. On 14 October 2018, ITV News reports that Assange's communications have been partially restored following a meeting between two senior UN officials and Ecuador’s President Lenin Moreno. On 16 October 2018, congressmen from the United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs wrote an open letter to Lenin Moreno which described Assange as a dangerous criminal and stated that progress between the US and Ecuador in the"
"22 August, a man scaled the embassy's walls, but was caught by the embassy's security. In September 2016, Assange said he would agree to US prison in exchange for President Obama granting Chelsea Manning clemency. Obama commuted Manning's sentence on 17 January 2017. The next day, at his final presidential news conference, Obama stated, ""I don't pay a lot of attention to Mr. Assange's tweets, so that wasn't a consideration in this instance."" The same day, Assange's US-based attorney Barry Pollack asserted (without saying when or where) that Assange ""had called for Chelsea Manning to receive clemency and be released"
"this matter whether at the helm of the G77 or in other multilateral fora. In November 2016, during Long's term as Foreign Minister, President Xi Jinping visited Ecuador in the first State-visit of a President of the People's Republic of China to the South American country. This was a high-profile visit and it further consolidated the close relations between China and Ecuador fostered during Correa's presidency. During Long's time at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the case of Julian Assange gained renewed global prominence. In December 2016, Assange was finally questioned in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London by Ecuadorian and"
"Robinson, along with Spanish jurist Baltasar Garzon and other members of Assange’s defence team, had already submitted an amicus brief to ensure that ""the relevant principles would be considered by the Court."" On 5 February 2016, the UN's Working Group on Arbitrary Detention concluded that Assange had been subject to arbitrary detention by the UK and Swedish Governments since 7 December 2010, including his time in prison, on conditional bail and in the Ecuadorian embassy. According to the group, Assange should be allowed to walk free and be given compensation. The UK and Swedish governments rejected the claim. UK Secretary"
"but also probably symbolic gesture, sending an encouragement to all journalists and whistleblowers ... Only France is now able to offer me the necessary protection ... France can, if it wishes, act."" In a statement issued by the Élysée Palace on 3 July 2015 in response to this letter, the French President said: ""France cannot act on his request. The situation of Mr Assange does not present an immediate danger."" On 4 July 2015, in response to the denial of asylum by France, a spokesman for Assange denied that Assange had actually ""filed"" a request for asylum in France. Speaking"
"a massive service, to wake us up to the zombielike way we absorb our news."" Since Assange has been living inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London under diplomatic asylum, he and Cumberbatch reportedly communicated via email during filming. On September 21, 2013, a script, allegedly the film's screenplay, was released by WikiLeaks, along with commentary labeling the film as ""fiction masquerading as fact"". Both Assange and WikiLeaks have stated that neither DreamWorks nor Disney approached them for any consultation on the film. Assange elaborated on the matter, ""I don't think we are in a situation anymore where an organization like"