to do this is to. turn back to the root structure get him into. the charge family from somalia live around the world to want to dump needed urgent assistance to. the family starts october anything on t w. 9 am on april 11th 2019 at the ecuadorian embassy in london british police have been granted access to the building to arrest julian a song on ecuadorian territory. the founder of wiki leaks struggled to prevent his diplomatic asylum from coming to an

end. at 10 15 in the morning julian assange was removed from the embassy where he had spent 2487 days or. the arrest marked a new chapter in the saga of the wiki leaks founder. who for you is ecuador's minister of foreign affairs who is julian asuncion i mean by any for me and the country of ecuador julian assange is an australian citizen who applied for asylum in our embassy in london in 2012 every quarter and all the rest and this asylum lasted for nearly 7 years. but he. really threw it out and said yes he was famous one of the world's big media celebrities someone who was deeply loved or passionately hated depending. in your

interests and point of view. that it was he said to the poll this. morning i'd be concerned though that is in miers around the world misguided that they might be the 1st i call them is an enemy of the united states someone who tried to. and successfully released cans of thousands of documents that really harmed our national security he almost undermined the entire operation to get osama bin laden through his leaks. were. a phony assigns a citizen's intelligence service. made of looking weak easy to venice and wiki leaks and julian assange changed the course of history even if he spends the rest of his life in prison he's already made history for those who do that. yeah i wish to you.

on april 11th 2016 exactly 3 years before a songes arrest 2 ecuadorian security officers seized our i.d.'s and mobile phones and searched our bags. obtaining an interview with the sonship took months of negotiations with his closest confidants. to the. first question oh you do. people off this question fit about the same as any other day. i my angry about the situation of course do you have to pay a price for the things you've been reading and of course. love or hate julian assange the documents released by wiki leaks shocked the world. the dawn tunnel files leak laid bare the inner workings of the american prison camp and the torture that was carried out there. the collateral murder footage revealed

the killing of iraqi civilians in 2 journalists shot down like targets in a video game. the war logs leak of classified military documents about the conflicts in iraq and afghanistan exposed to looting torture and kidnapping other files shed light on 50 years of u.s. diplomatic policy and helped expose bashar al assad and his corrupt regime. wiki leaks also helped engineer the escape of edward snowden the former n.s.a. employee who lifted the veil of secrecy from global u.s. surveillance operations. a world without julian assange on jan wiki leaks that would also mean that revelations about u.s. spying on french presidents would never have been made public. when we revealed

that the 3 presidencies had to be deeply could have traded by the united states and the president's person is part of what should have been the crypt response of the teaching of seat of the french intelligence service it should have come immediately to us and say do you have more how we failed. to protect the president. from u.s. spying. that didn't happen. so why didn't that happen well i don't believe the prince intelligence services are idiots. they knew that the 1st thing to do but the concern about possibly offending the americans their concern was so much higher today preferred to be a victim i didn't understand what was going on. aug

2010 in the swedish capital stockholm julian a son she responded to the ultimatum the pentagon had issued to wiki leaks. one of those demands was that we destroy our archives of classified information relating to the pentagon and the 3rd man was that we stop dealing with us military was what was if we did not follow those demands then we would. a few days later a son a man who many applauded as an icon of transparency stood accused of sexual assault . tomas consequence is a journalist at the swedish newspaper express and he covered the assigned case as it was happening. giuliana source was visiting sweden he met these 2 women 2 different locations and eventually very

accused him of rape and sexual assault the case made international headlines songes attorney in britain later stated that 2 swedish prosecutors told him the case did not involve great but sex by surprise. laws on sexual assault moved to the center of the accusations. i think the case was shelved and then rolled out again indicating that there's presumably a crisis bit more behind it that he simply splendid french a little this would not have been right damn. the 2 women agreed that they had on separate occasions in gauged in consensual sex with a songe but they accused him of failing to use a condom as they had asked. if. they filed a complaint and suddenly found themselves in the global spotlight.

the swedish investigation against julius sanch was beset by controversy. so express a real be one of the investigators knew one of the women who refused to do it in a song very hard written to each other on facebook before this all happened they had also been involved in the same political party and this came off the jewel in a song so his legal team criticised the prosecutors and the police. to solve the case they should have completed the investigation. witnesses should have been heard and the text messages between him and the women submitted in order to establish the facts of the case that in the bunch of addiction. appeared before the authorities but said he had to go abroad because of certain obligations he did what he had the right to do he. asuncion left sweden and headed for london

after 2 years of legal wrangling the british courts ruled that the swedish extradition request was legitimate and activated the warrant for his arrest. and sanch beard he would be extradited to sweden he pled to the ecuadorian embassy where he was granted political asylum. and even as a german computer hacker and friend of julian a son. he came forward to clarify a son just position with respect to the swedish authorities. after the young over the years in writing and through his lawyers he repeatedly offered sweden that he would permit himself to be extradited for questioning and for the purposes of appearing in court about the 2 women's accusations of coercion. to go when i was

young but he wanted sweden to agree that they would not extradite him to the united states the swedish government wasn't willing to grant this condition. that's why he hasn't been able to respond to the case and the accusations that have been made against him for all these years. before were for months until swedish prosecutors have not exhausted the range of international legal means that would have to mess it questioning in england. on june 19th 2012 julian assange slip through the net of the british intelligence services. the man who opened the door of the ecuadorian embassy was then console fidel not a bias. a seal this is the 7 years of asylum in our embassy didn't have anything to do with sweden. from

the 1st day our government emphasized that they wouldn't interfere in the swedish investigation julian assange didn't go to sweden because he feared he would be extradited to the u.s. . news that. there was a major investigation of wiki leaks underway. a qaeda demoed see it that's why we concluded that his life rights and freedom were threatened to lose that it was not by the swedes. and but by the americans all but when they missed us from the source you see no problem with your list also needs. to take a punt at this and the environment around us os became more hostile here off to a year. when i visited him at fez the guards were still offering me coffee back at the end the atmosphere was really tense in the hardly let anyone in to see to it

and actually and. eventually a new government came into power in ecuador and people 2nd 2017 lenin moreno was elected president. this a moment he says in the saudi at that moment he hadn't yet suspected that his relations with ecuador would worsen and while a lunatic will i thought the only country that was protecting him he ended the asylum and turned a songe over to his pursuers but when you say councils to say that this. why did ecuador's new government change course. we went to the capital quito to find out more. lenin moreno held a speech before the national assembly. i think of the. electricity but even more this is subtle a lot of us know of us but most other. not without. going through the door

there you go no matter what you are. letting go of the past would that also mean closing the lid on the leaked documents known in ecuador as the papers which implicated the president and his family in. money laundering lennon merino blamed the wiki leaks for the scandal. was there a connection between that leak and julian assange his arrest. the case falls under the purview of ecuador's minister of foreign affairs. he granted us an interview. for the poor his asylum at the embassy was ended because of his inappropriate

behavior and for other reasons as well. he had interfered in the affairs of other countries attacked a guard and installed an authorised equipment. he tried to subvert the embassy security system and accused us of spying on him. in short he was accusing us of crimes. that commit the ecuadorian government could not tolerate that and no other country would have tolerated it either. there were a few isolated incidents that in no way reflected julian's overall behavior that. they had the goal of ensuring julian no longer felt comfortable there. the problem he was deliberately harassed and provoked to elicit incidents that would justify

the unjustifiable. then they wanted to end his political asylum and use the pretext of alleged incidents within the embassy in this. then throw the land behind. hillary yeah i mean that's how the continuous vote on these gifts for the threaten to push certain buttons if you felt threatened or harassed by ecuador's government . or the base you know all that was a matter of substantial concern but again it was because we wanted to avoid risk by we employ diplomatic channels to ask the british police for support or people that we had to go eat but the more they didn't see on the left. what buttons and threats were being referenced here did a songe have any documents he was planning to release ecuador's new government

changed the company responsible for monitoring a songe in the embassy. before 2017 assigned was monitored by u.c. global a private security company with offices in a number of countries. journalist fernando v i v senseo also investigated the events. it is in may this is the award they present to ecuador's best investigative journalist. last year i received it for my investigation of the case of julian a sandwich. you know suspended moreno terminated you see global's contract and hired prom security and ecuadorian security company without any intelligence service or public security experience the company came out of nowhere and fulfilled the same tasks as you see global you know what. you know that

the new company doesn't answer to former president korea but is working for lenny merinos government. surveillance videos began to appear online. they showed julian a son in the kitchen hallway and in a living room at the embassy. but his good ole if this was how they transmitted to the merino government all the information interrogation protocols and assessments of surveillance that took place everywhere in the embassy you know the motive. why would the ecuadorian government have been trusted an unknown company to monitor a man wanted by the us intelligence service and it's. fun to meet in late 2017 problem security took over responsibility for security at your embassy or the new staff given new instructions by the sick no i don't think this new contract had

anything to do with the security directives in the embassy. normally this is the other is that they really like to emphasize that there weren't any cameras installed in mr a song just private quarters the 3 rooms he lived in this is your son's. so who owns the cameras that films julian a son is in private. homes could climb security have carried out an espionage operation without your knowledge . that settles we don't know if someone installed a 3rd. system independently of this company this. system. it's from security was just a front they use the name of this company as a cover to carry out espionage activities without interference the name of the company doesn't matter at all whether it's pepito neato or problem security hiding

behind this name or just the interests of the merino government. is the dennis is it ain't any his yes it. is to. say the company julian was told that his internet access and his phone service were being terminated effective immediately on the orders of ecuador's government li embassy isn't a jail but it had been turned into one that. after julian assange his arrest ecuadorian authorities seized some of his personal belongings. they left his clothes but confiscated computers hard drives electronic devices and documents. carlos beauvais that is julian assange his attorney in ecuador. we were denied

access to the evidence that was allegedly found in his personal effects i fear and i'll say this directly that they could go as far as fabricating evidence there are no witnesses this so-called evidence could be used to support the other geishas against him by the us. s. . r. prosecutors received a request for judicial assistance from the us department of justice to confiscate some of mr a song just personal belongings because they could be relevant to the investigation against him i would not. be as binocs will these documents be turned over to the u.s. . yes absolutely we could do that because the request for judicial assistance requires us to provide copies of these archival documents to the country that filed the

request. that night but did. but one mustn't assume that the documents or other items of evidence from the embassy necessarily implicate mr a song. with the cialis but it sounds. we know that the u.s. has a lot of information about the merino government. and their behavior is reaction to pressure from the u.s. . as it is you on this over the years the united states had indeed grown increasingly frustrated by a songe and wiki leaks. in 2016 he raised the ire of the democratic party. running for president wiki leaks published thousands of internal e-mails which helped doom hillary clinton's presidential campaign against donald trump. was even accused of working for russia. few democratic lawmakers are willing to

speak openly about the a songe case. rachel rizzo is a democratic party expert for national security. among the very very left leaning democrats the united states and there is a sense of you know free speech and the public's right to know but i also think that. you know the release of highly sensitive information from people working on the campaign or you know people that were trying to help hillary clinton be elected there was a sense of probably anger and mistrust and wiki leaks and julian a songe conspired with a part of our russian intelligence unit to hack the democratic national committee and released e-mails related to the hillary clinton presidential campaign and so today that is what bringing to justice looks like in the united states. during the 2016 presidential campaign donald trump tweeted i love wiki leaks so

does the u.s. government under president trump still support with the links. kenneth weinstein is a republican strategist with close ties to leading republicans like former president george w. bush and current vice president mike pence it's clear that wiki leaks has fallen out of favor. he was in the ecuadorian embassy of his own free will he could have been a chicken like snowden and run off to moscow or run off to some other 3rd country in the end he didn't do that he could've gone to cuba he could've gone to russia could have gone to china god knows where each owes not to and yesterday the price and someday snowden will pay a price well beyond. his time in moscow i think it's very important for our government to show that we have no patience for the kind of.

so-called whistle blowing activities of traitors it's natural that he should be extradited to the united states and have to face a court of law here certainly i think. life without parole strikes me as a fair punishment but again i am neither judge nor jury and i think it's up to the jury to decide when the judge to sentence. the former director of the cia and n.s.a. general michael hayden represents the position of the u.s. intelligence services. we have a biblical phrase chiseled on the wall at cia headquarters you shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free so it's not surprising that the committee wants to wants to hear and so the view of people like me is that he is an enemy of the united states i would hope that if he's ever brought back in front of a committee it would be part of a package that he was bringing being brought back to the united states also to face

what i think should be criminal charges. since april 11th 2019 hearings have been ongoing at a court in westminster in london isaan supporters are demanding his release. the former ecuadorian consul to be done by as has also attended. the notified julian that the charges against him justify his extradition. and ask him if you'll oppose it. just about this year and he said yes. but the british are the closest allies of the us when it's a matter of occupying other countries or starting wars. invited by east is that it's quite unlikely that the authorities will dare to deny the extradition request . on sea got their say on the getting into this case.

julian a son should miss being held in belmarsh prison which some have called britain's guantanamo. prison jennifer robinson is one of the attorneys who have been defending wiki leaks since 2010. the largest is is a renowned prison in this country. for the high security aspect of it i don't say the days where they bring all the terror suspects. well at least now he has access to medical treatment but he circumstances being quite different. he has a lot of time into a cell line. 6 days been in a cell any time it's been very difficult.

in sweden the sexual assault charges could be reopened the u.s. has filed 18 charges against the songe including conspiracy hacking and espionage. if convicted he could face a sentence of up to 175 years in prison. and he committed this fit as he tried to get our classified documents and put them out there in the public people like healthy manning and edward snowden and julian assigned to me they. they are they've gone about things in different ways i mean join a songe provided the platform edward snowden and chelsea manning provided the information for that platform right but i think one of the questions that is the most important here is what was

a different way to share that information and how can we fix that going forward to ensure that. massive leaks like this don't happen again. should emma. isn't a spoiled his the publisher he publishes information that he receives information in the public interest. in the past the distinction between a spy and a publisher has been respected by the. police people but now this distinction is becoming blurred. when they say fast. if julian asuncion extradited to the united states what will happen to wiki leaks will the organization that has changed the course of recent history be silenced.

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