A friend says WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is stressed but prepared amid reports the Australian is to be evicted from the Ecuadorian embassy in London
Ecuador says reports it could soon expel WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange from its London embassy are"unfounded rumours", as a friend who had been visiting the"It is tense because he is expecting to be thrown out at any minute," Vaughan Smith told media on Friday afternoon after exiting the embassy.
Meanwhile, Ecuador's foreign affairs minister has dismissed the reports of Assange's imminent expulsion from the embassy as"unfounded rumours". A senior official told The Associated Press that no decision had been taken to expel Assange from the embassy. "Expelling Julian Assange would be illegal, violate international refugee law and be an attack on the UN which has repeatedly called for Assange to be able to walk free.
The INA Papers are a collection of documents leaked to an Ecuadorian lawmaker, which have implicated President Lenin Moreno in a corruption scandal.
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