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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange Arrested in London

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London UK, Police were seen outside the Ecuadorian embassy after WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was arrested by British police in London, Britain yesterday.

A lawyer for whistleblower Julian Assange has confirmed that he has been arrested partly in relation to a request for extradition from the United States.Writing on Twitter, Jen Robinson said Assange’s arrest in London was “not just for breach of bail conditions but also in relation to a US extradition reques.”

In a further tweet, Robinson said the US warrant “was issued in in December 2017 and is for conspiracy with Chelsea Manning” in early 2010. WikiLeaks’ official Twitter account also tweeted that Assange has been arrested “for extradition to the United States for publishing.

In 2010 Assange released the classified US military footage known as ‘Collateral Murder’ of a US Apache helicopter gunship opening fire and killing 12 people, including two Reuters staff. The footage had been provided to WikiLeaks by US Army soldier Chelsea Manning, who was later tried by a US tribunal and sentenced to 35 years in prison.

7 thoughts on “WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange Arrested in London

  1. He belongs in Gitmo.

  2. As much as one wants to appreciate brave men and women who blow whistle on the corrupt and the evil… I have no sympathy for that guy.

    Of all the evils in the world he picked the US military industrial complex to mess with. Our military industrial complex maybe far from righteous, but it’s still ours. And it stands against all those @ssholes who want us harm: terrorists, oligarchs, communists, and G-d knows who else.

    I wonder how exciting Mr Assange would find a cell within a general population.

  3. Gitmo’s kinda nice, actually.

  4. Didn’t Assange have it in for Hillary? Something about her threatening to hit him with a drone strike?

  5. The wheels of Justice grind slowly…but they grind.

  6. He was once the darling of the Left. He could have had the enormous support of the mainstream media, but he spectacularly burned that bridge with exposing the DNC emails.

  7. There is a difference between revealing how the government is secretly and unconstitutionally spying on random innocent individuals versus revealing private email messages to the world, whether you agree with them politically or not. If he sees no difference, that could explain his behavior.

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