A senior Ecuadorian official says a Swedish software developer living in Quito and who is allegedly close to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has been arrested as authorities attempt to dismantle a blackmail ring that in recent days had threatened to retaliate against President Lenin Moreno.
On Twitter earlier Thursday, Bini called claims by the Interior Minister that Russian hackers and someone close to Wikileaks were working inside Ecuador “very worrisome” news. “This seems like a witch hunt to me,” Bini wrote. Assange was arrested by British police Thursday at the Ecuadorian Embassy where he had been holed up for nearly seven years under political asylum. The U.S. has charged him with conspiring with former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning to break into a classified government computer at the Pentagon.Ecuador’s interior minister says a person suspected of being a key player for Wikileaks and close to Julian Assange has been detained at Quito’s airport trying to fly to Japan.
Ecuador’s former president said that “although Julian Assange denounced war crimes, he’s only the person supplying the information.” “When you’re given shelter, cared for and provided food you don’t denounce the owner of the house,” said Moreno to applause at an event outside Quito. For Branco, Assange is a journalist who “revealed information to the general public about crimes against humanity, war crimes.” He said the arrest is “some kind of revenge.”___Ecuador’s government says that as tensions with Julian Assange mounted in recent weeks, the WikiLeaks founder acted out with hostility against his hosts at the country’s embassy in London.
The U.S. Justice Department charged Julian Assange on Thursday with conspiring with Manning to break into a classified government computer. The president, who was sitting next to South Korean President Moon Jae-in, said “It’s not my thing” and didn’t elaborate. In a stream of remarks on Twitter, Correa criticized Moreno for allowing British authorities to arrest Assange, and linked that to WikiLeaks’ disclosure about an offshore bank account allegedly linked to Moreno’s family and friends.Former Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino also rejected allegations by Interior Minister Maria Paula Romo claiming that a close collaborator of WikiLeaks had traveled with him to several countries this year, accusing her of “inventing a story.”An independent U.N.
stacyherbert Motherfuckers!
Great!
Death sentence
jaraparilla You guys must be shitting yourselves realizing the implications on journalism and the Constitution! No?
AngelFox71 If Julian did indeed break our laws he should pay. However, I am grateful to Julian that America found out about some of the corruption in our government. I don’t care for him or Manning but it’s extremely important that America’s DC Swamp is drained.
The Night of the Long Knives.
The (new) New Normal. Everyone is arrested, indicted, or sanctioned.
Please, how about the CLINTONS!
More laptops grabbed up. Uh, oh.
FreeJulienAssange ✊🏻
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