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Julian Assange arrested by British police at Ecuadorean embassy

 

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LONDON (Reuters) - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was arrested by British police on Thursday after they were invited into the Ecuadorean embassy where he has been holed up since 2012.

 

"Julian Assange, 47, has today, Thursday 11 April, been arrested by officers from the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) at the Embassy of Ecuador," police said.

 

Police said they arrested Assange after being "invited into the embassy by the Ambassador, following the Ecuadorean government's withdrawal of asylum."

 

(Reporting by Costas Pitas and Kate Holton, editing by Guy Faulconbridge)

 

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So now we are just waiting for US to ask for Julian's extradition. Or it might have already been agreed, that as soon as the British police has Julian, he will be handed over.....

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37 minutes ago, madmen said:

So they arrested him even after the rape charges were dropped..looks like he is on the way to USA 

The charges were not dropped,the Swedish police just stopped trying once it became clear that he was staying put in the embassy,the charges remain on the books.Who gets first dibs on him the Swedish should because the jumping bail was on extradition to Sweden,have the USA actually asked for extradition?

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Inevitable that he would be arrested eventually. Let's see what happens and where he ends up ... then I'll cast my judgement on this episode.

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