A look back at the WikiLeaks founder's nearly seven years inside the Ecuadorean Embassy in London.
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange speaks on the balcony of the Embassy of Ecuador in London in May 2017. By Siobhán O'Grady Siobhán O'Grady WorldViews reporter Email Bio Follow April 5 at 2:46 PM In August 2012, Julian Assange emerged from the red-brick Ecuadoran Embassy in London and stepped onto a small white balcony decorated with the Ecuadoran flag.
Assange has long feared, even though Sweden has dropped its investigation of him, that if Ecuador kicked him out, he would immediately be arrested in Britain, where he is wanted for skipping bail in 2012. And if that were to happen, he has expressed fears that U.S. authorities would use the opportunity to extradite him to face charges over his WikiLeaks publications.In 2010, the same year WikiLeaks published hundreds of thousands of leaked U.S.
Throughout his time at the embassy, Assange remained largely connected to the outside world through the Internet. In 2016, he even adopted a kitten, named it Michi, and started a Twitter account for it, with a bio that states, “I live in the Ecuadoran Embassy with Julian Assange: Interested in counter-purrveillance.
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