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Withdrawal of Ecuadorian nationality from Assange does not advance

2021-06-21T19:25:19.649Z


The withdrawal of the Ecuadorian nationality to the founder of Wikileaks, Julian Assange has not had major progress.


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Julian Assange gestures from a police vehicle upon his arrival at Westminster Magistrates Court in London on April 11, 2019. Julian Assange, founder of the WikiLeaks website, has been a key figure in major leaks of classified government documents , cables and videos since his site launched in 2006. (Credit: Jack Taylor / Getty Images)

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Assange holds up a copy of The Guardian newspaper in London on July 26, 2010, a day after WikiLeaks published more than 90,000 classified documents related to the war in Afghanistan.

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Assange attends a seminar at the Swedish Trade Union Confederation in Stockholm on August 14, 2010. Six days later, Swedish prosecutors issued an arrest warrant based on allegations of sexual assault brought by two women.

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Assange displays a WikiLeaks page on October 23, 2010, in London.

WikiLeaks published approximately 400,000 classified military documents from the Iraq war the day before.

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Assange and his bodyguards are seen here after a press conference in Geneva, Switzerland, on November 4, 2010. In that month WikiLeaks began publishing diplomatic cables from US embassies.

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Assange stands behind the tinted window of a police vehicle at Westminster Magistrates Court in London on December 14, 2010. Assange had voluntarily surrendered to London authorities on December 7 and was released on bail. and placed under house arrest on December 16.

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Assange supporters are outside the Belmarsh magistrates court in London on February 24, 2011, while a judge ruled in favor of Assange's extradition to Sweden.

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Copies of Assange's "unauthorized autobiography" appear on display in a bookstore in Edinburgh, Scotland, on September 22, 2011. At the beginning of the month, WikiLeaks published more than 250,000 US diplomatic cables.

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Assange speaks to protesters in St. Paul's Cathedral Square in London on October 15, 2011.

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Assange leaves London High Court in December 2011. He was taking his extradition case to the British High Court.

(Geoff Caddick / AFP / Getty Images)

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Assange leaves the Supreme Court in February 2012. In May of that year, the court denied his appeal against extradition.

(Credit: Oli Scarff / Getty Images)

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Two police officers stand guard outside the Ecuadorian embassy in London on June 20, 2012, after Assange took refuge there to avoid arrest and extradition by British police.

Ecuador granted him asylum in August 2012.

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Assange addresses the media and his supporters from the balcony of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London on August 19, 2012. A few days earlier, Ecuador announced that it had granted Assange asylum.

In his public speech, Assange demanded that the United States abandon its "witch hunt" against WikiLeaks.

(Credit: CARL COURT / AFP / Getty Images)

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Assange speaks from a window of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London on December 20, 2012. Facing arrest by British authorities, Assange has not set foot outside the embassy since June 2012.

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Assange addresses the Oxford Union Society from the Ecuadorian Embassy in January 2013. (Credit: Philip Toscano / PA Images / Getty Images)

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Assange appears with Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Ricardo Patiño on the balcony of the embassy on June 16, 2013.

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Benedict Cumberbatch plays Assange in the movie "The Fifth Estate."

Assange declined to meet with the actor, saying: "I think there is a good intention, but you certainly know why it is a bad idea to meet with you. By meeting with you, I would validate this horrible movie, and approve of the talented, but libertine. performance that the script will force him to give ".

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Assange speaks during a table discussion at the South By Southwest Festival in Austin, Texas, in March 2014.

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Assange attends a press conference inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London in August 2014. (Credit: John Stillwell / AFP / Getty Images)

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Assange is seen on a video screen in March 2015, during an event on the sidelines of a session of the United Nations Human Rights Council.

(Credit: FABRICE COFFRINI / AFP / Getty Images)

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From the balcony of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, Assange holds up a United Nations report in February 2016. The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention said Assange was being arbitrarily detained by the governments of Sweden and the Kingdom. United.

(Credit: Carl Court / Getty Images)

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| Assange speaks to the media in May 2017, after Swedish prosecutors dropped their investigation of the rape allegations against him. Assange acknowledged that he was unlikely to leave the embassy anytime soon. "The UK has said it will arrest me regardless," he said. "US CIA Director (Mike) Pompeo and US Attorney General have said that I and the rest of the WikiLeaks staff have no ... First Amendment rights, that my arrest and the arrest (of) my other staff is a priority. That is not acceptable. " (Credit: Jack Taylor / Getty Images)

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Assange was seen for the first time in months during a teleconference hearing in Quito, Ecuador, in October 2018. The hearing was later postponed due to translation difficulties.

(Maria Sol Borja for CNN)

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A van displays images of Assange and Chelsea Manning, the former Army intelligence analyst who supplied thousands of classified documents to WikiLeaks, outside the Ecuadorian Embassy in London on Friday, April 5.

A senior Ecuadorian official said that - at that time - no decision had been made to expel Assange from the embassy.

According to WikiLeaks tweets, sources had told the organization that Assange could be expelled from the embassy in "hours or days."

(Alastair Grant / AP)

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A video capture shows the dramatic moment when Assange was removed from the Ecuadorian Embassy by the police on April 11, 2019. Assange was arrested for "failing to turn himself in to court" by a court order issued in 2012. The officers They made the initial decision to detain Assange after Ecuador withdrew his asylum and invited authorities to the embassy, ​​citing the Australian's bad behavior.

(Credit: Ruptly)

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Assange gestures from the window of a prison van as he is driven to Southwark Crown Court in London on May 1, 2019, before being sentenced to 50 weeks in prison for violating the conditions of his bail in 2012. (Credit: Daniel Leal- Olivas / AFP / Getty Images)

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A sketch shows Assange in the Old Bailey courthouse in London for a ruling in his extradition case on Monday, January 4, 2021. A judge rejected a US request to extradite Assange, saying such a move would be "oppressive" due to his mental health.

(Credit: Elizabeth Cook / PA / AP)

(CNN Spanish)

- The Foreign Minister of Ecuador, Mauricio Montalvo, revealed this Thursday that "there has been no progress" in the withdrawal of Ecuadorian nationality to the founder of Wikileaks, Julian Assange, granted at the end of 2017 during the Lenín Moreno government, and that the situation must be resolved in the corresponding instances.

Montalvo made that revelation when asked by CNN during a dialogue with the foreign press in Quito.

In 2019 and after almost 7 years of asylum at the Ecuadorian embassy in London, the Ecuadorian government lifted Assange's asylum and handed the Australian over to the British authorities.

That same day, the Foreign Ministry determined that the granting of Ecuadorian nationality to Assange constituted a "harmful administrative act" and suspended the effects of his naturalization, but not the withdrawal of nationality.

The "declaration of nullity" of nationality requires an additional judicial process before the Administrative Court of the country.

Carlos Poveda, Julian Assange's lawyer in Ecuador, told CNN that this Thursday a preliminary hearing was held before the Administrative Contentious Court where the appeal of Assange's defense was not accepted.

Mauricio Montalvo

"The main evidence regarding the (alleged) irregularities of naturalization was not accepted," emphasized Poveda.

The trial hearing is scheduled for July, according to Poveda.

  • Will President Guillermo Lasso be able to solve the crisis in Ecuador?

Montalvo told CNN that the Assange case was aired in the previous government, and that the withdrawal of his Ecuadorian nationality is a matter that must advance according to the pace given by the administration of justice.

"The matter is being raised by the Foreign Ministry and you know the rhythms of the administration of justice are a little slower," emphasized Montalvo.

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In a 2019 report, the Comptroller General of Ecuador established that there were inconsistencies and irregularities in the process of granting Ecuadorian nationality to Julian Assange.

That same year, during an impeachment process against her, then-Foreign Minister María Fernanda Espinosa explained to Parliament that President Lenín Moreno "had full knowledge of the process" and that she responded to the directives of Moreno, who supervised and authorized the decision.

Moreno, for his part, said that it was not his decision and that he respected the actions of the former foreign minister.

The United States requested the extradition of Assange to the country to answer for the charges according to the Espionage Law for his role in receiving and publishing information related to the national security.

In January 2021, a British judge rejected the United States' request to extradite Assange on the grounds that it would be oppressive to his mental health.

EcuadorJulian AssangeLenín Moreno

Source: cnnespanol

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