04-12-2019, 01:26 PM
This article has the full timeline of events since Assange's arrest yesterday.
I hope they keep him safe from the wicked witch of the world, Killary. I'm sure she wants him to answer for what he's done before he spills even more of her crimes with the evidence.
Read the full timeline here: The Latest: Quito arrest part of Assange probe
Quote:LONDON (AP) — The Latest on the arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in London (all times local):
5 a.m.
Friends of a Swedish software developer arrested in Ecuador as part of a probe into Julian Assange’s alleged efforts to stave off his eviction from the country’s embassy are describing him as a soft-spoken geek being unfairly accused of plotting to destabilize the government.
A senior Ecuadorian official said Ola Bini was arrested Thursday at Quito’s airport as he was preparing to board a flight for Japan. Authorities haven’t presented any charges against Bini but the official said they are looking into whether he was part of a possible effort by Assange and Wikileaks to blackmail President Lenin Moreno.
Vijay Prashad runs a Marxist publishing house based in India and considers himself a close friend of Bini. He said Bini is “the last person who would ever be involved in an attempt overthrow a government.”
Prashad said he last saw Bini a few months ago in Sao Paulo, Brazil. He said he didn’t know if Bini had any links to Wikileaks or Assange, adding that his work as a privacy advocate are being unfairly equated by the Ecuadorians with criminal activity.
The arrest came after British police dragged Assange out of Ecuador’s embassy when his seven-year asylum was revoked.
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4:30 a.m.
Foreign Minister Marise Payne says Australia remains “completely opposed” to the death penalty amid fears that Australian native Julian Assange could be exposed to such punishment if he is extradited to the United States.
Australian consular officials plan to visit the WikiLeaks founder in a London jail on Friday a day after he was arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy where he’d been holed up nearly seven years. For now, he faces a single computer conspiracy charge in the U.S. that does not carry the death penalty, but his supporters fear more serious charges may be brought later.
Payne said Friday the U.K. had sought assurances from the U.S. that Assange would not be exposed to the death penalty.
Assange plans to fight extradition, but Australian leaders have indicated they wouldn’t intervene.
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2:30 a.m.
A senior Ecuadorian official says a Swedish software developer living in Quito and who is allegedly close to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has been arrested as authorities attempt to dismantle a blackmail ring that in recent days had threatened to retaliate against President Lenin Moreno.
The official said Ola Bini was arrested Thursday at Quito’s airport as he was preparing to board a flight for Japan.
The official spoke on the condition of anonymity and didn’t provide any additional details about Bini.
On a blog, a Swedish man by the same name describes himself as a software developer working in Quito for the Center for Digital Autonomy, a group based in Ecuador and Spain focused on privacy, security and cryptography issues. It makes no mention of any affiliation with Wikileaks.
On Twitter earlier Thursday, Bini called claims by the Interior Minister that Russian hackers and someone close to Wikileaks were working inside Ecuador “very worrisome” news. “This seems like a witch hunt to me,” Bini wrote.
The arrest came after British police dragged Assange out of Ecuador’s embassy when his seven-year asylum was revoked.
By Gonzalo Solano in Quito, Ecuador.
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1:40 a.m.
Hillary Clinton says newly arrested WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange needs to “answer for what he has done.”
I hope they keep him safe from the wicked witch of the world, Killary. I'm sure she wants him to answer for what he's done before he spills even more of her crimes with the evidence.
Read the full timeline here: The Latest: Quito arrest part of Assange probe