Why did Ecuador give up Julian Assange? While the country had undoubtedly tired of its London house guest, the motivations for stripping the WikiLeaks founder of his asylum and allowing Metropolitan Police officers in are likely to have been more complex
Foreign Minister José Valencia and Interior Minister María Paula Romo accused Assange of riding scooters around the cramped embassy hallways, insulting staff and smearing feces on the walls.But while Ecuador had undoubtedly tired of its London house guest, the motivations for stripping Assange of his asylum and allowing in officers of the Metropolitan Police are likely to have been more complex.WikiLeaks had already been needling the Ecuadorian authorities in other ways.
Assange does not have the right to"hack accounts or personal phones," Moreno told the Ecuadorian Radio Broadcasters' Association last TuesdayOver the weekend, the Ecuadorian Ministry of Foreign Relations ramped up the rhetoric against Assange when it put out a fiery statement rejecting"the fake news that has circulated in the last few days on social media, many of them spread by an organization linked to Mr. Julian Assange.
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