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thewayneFrom the article: "The country's foreign minister José Valencia authorised the seizure of equipment earlier this month.
Wikileaks says the material includes manuscripts, legal papers, medical records and electronic equipment.
Mr Assange's lawyer has called the move "completely unprecedented in the history of asylum".
"Ecuador is committing a flagrant violation of the most basic norms of the institution of asylum by handing over all the asylee's personal belongings indiscriminately to the country that he was being protected from," added lawyer Aitor Martinez.
Mr Valencia said last week that the decision to share items with US authorities should be taken by the Ecuadorian prosecutor's office.
Wikileaks' Editor-in-Chief, Kristinn Hrafnsson, said in a statement that there was "no doubt" that Ecuador had "tampered" with the belongings it had sent to the US."
It's an interesting point about the asylee's personal belongings. The biggest problems is that he was an ass, causing problems with his hosts. He was a guest in the embassy and he abused his position, hogging WiFi bandwidth that was needed by the embassy, embarrassing the embassy, it was alleged that he hacked into embassy computers! Eventually there was a change in government and they kicked him out by inviting the police in to arrest him.
Personally I'm a little surprised that they didn't give his possessions to the UK police, I guess they strategized that they could score some political brownie points with the United States by giving said possessions to them.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-48335692
I don't have a link to the latter item in the subject line, but Sweden has re-opened its investigation into the rape investigation against Assange. He had overnight sex with two women in Sweden, afterwards they withdrew their consent, prompting his flight to England to avoid prosecution. Part of their withdrawal of consent involved, IIRC, set without a condom or a broken condom. When Sweden suspended their investigation into Assange due to their inability to access him at the embassy, they always had the ability to relaunch it should he become available again, and that time has arrived.
Wikileaks says the material includes manuscripts, legal papers, medical records and electronic equipment.
Mr Assange's lawyer has called the move "completely unprecedented in the history of asylum".
"Ecuador is committing a flagrant violation of the most basic norms of the institution of asylum by handing over all the asylee's personal belongings indiscriminately to the country that he was being protected from," added lawyer Aitor Martinez.
Mr Valencia said last week that the decision to share items with US authorities should be taken by the Ecuadorian prosecutor's office.
Wikileaks' Editor-in-Chief, Kristinn Hrafnsson, said in a statement that there was "no doubt" that Ecuador had "tampered" with the belongings it had sent to the US."
It's an interesting point about the asylee's personal belongings. The biggest problems is that he was an ass, causing problems with his hosts. He was a guest in the embassy and he abused his position, hogging WiFi bandwidth that was needed by the embassy, embarrassing the embassy, it was alleged that he hacked into embassy computers! Eventually there was a change in government and they kicked him out by inviting the police in to arrest him.
Personally I'm a little surprised that they didn't give his possessions to the UK police, I guess they strategized that they could score some political brownie points with the United States by giving said possessions to them.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-48335692
I don't have a link to the latter item in the subject line, but Sweden has re-opened its investigation into the rape investigation against Assange. He had overnight sex with two women in Sweden, afterwards they withdrew their consent, prompting his flight to England to avoid prosecution. Part of their withdrawal of consent involved, IIRC, set without a condom or a broken condom. When Sweden suspended their investigation into Assange due to their inability to access him at the embassy, they always had the ability to relaunch it should he become available again, and that time has arrived.
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Date: 2019-05-24 06:50 pm (UTC)I am hearing and seeing things around in Stateside media about how Assange's prosecution and possible extradition is a fight over journalistic protections, at least in regard to Wikileaks and Chelsea Manning, and that's presumably a fairly copmlicated tangle to go through about whether a pretty clearly reprehensible person needs to be defended on ethical and moral and principle grounds, when they'd really rather have someone without a tarnished personal life.