Breaking News: It's over! Ecuador will extradite Juliana Assange to Britain in the upcoming days

Ecuador is ready to hand over the founder of WikiLeaks UK in "the coming weeks or even days," said editor-in-chief RT Margarita Simonyan, citing her own sources

The latest prospects for his resignation from the embassy and extradition are again in the media. "My sources say Julian Assange will be committed to Britain in coming weeks or even days," Simonyan said in a recent Twitter release that shared WikiLeaks. "Like never before, I want my sources to be wrong," she continued. Simonyan's message came as Ecuador speculated again in British press in talks with Britain about the future of Assange.

Earlier this week, the Times reported that Britain engaged in talks with the Ecuadorian government in attempting to remove Assange from his embassy in London. Sir Alan Duncan, the foreign minister, said he was managing diplomatic efforts to address this issue. Sources close to Assange said they were not aware of the negotiations but believed America puts "significant pressure" on Ecuador, including the threat of blocking a loan from the International Monetary Fund if he remained in the embassy.

The Times report comes only a few weeks before the visit of newly-elected evacuation president Lenin Morena of Great Britain, who called Assange as "hacker", "inherited problem" and "stone in the shoe." There were other worrying signs that show Assange becoming problematic for Ecuador. At the end of March this year, the Ecuadorian government suspended Assange's communications privileges with the outside world, extinguishing its internet connection in the embassy.

The move encouraged Assange's alleged breaches of the agreement on interference in the affairs of other states. He had previously criticized the Spanish government for terror over the Catalan independence movement. Assange is in the Embassy of the United States of America since 2012, when he asked the Latin American state to grant her asylum. Sweden has 47-year-olds accused of sexual assault, but feared extradition would lead to extradition to the United States and prosecution without a fair trial.

The United States argues that Assange was "engaged in terrorism," where State Attorney Jeff Sessions called his "priority" arrest last year. Over the years, WikiLeaks has published hundreds of thousands of classified US documents, including the military secrets of the war in Iraq, sparked by whistleblower Chelsea Manning in 2010. Despite the Swedish investigation into him that was closed in May last year, an Australian reporter could not yet leave the embassy because of a British warrant of alleged breach of the terms of the warrant and that Britain would not guarantee not to extradite him to the United States.

Over the years whistleblowers have been supported by activists and human rights groups who have been seeking to be released. The UN Panel also found that Assange's stay in the embassy was an "arbitrary detention", but it was not enough to change his destiny.

• 20 Jul, 2018
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