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Ecuador negotiates conditions for Julian Assange to leave his Embassy

Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno has reported on Thursday that his government is in talks with the UK authorities about the conditions for Julian Assange to leave the country's embassy in London, where he has been a refugee for six years, he will not be extradited to a country where his life is in danger. The Ecuadorian president assured that the activist will not be expelled from the diplomatic headquarters and that his legal team is already considering his options.
The founder of WikiLeaks has wreaked havoc on Ecuador's diplomatic relations with other countries by publicly expressing his views on political issues in other countries, even though he has been asked not to do so. Rafael Correa, the former Ecuadorian president, was the one who decided or "I do not like the presence of Mr. Julian Assange in the Ecuadorian embassy," the Ecuadorian president said in a radio interview with local media in Quito and, that it seems to him "too long that he is almost imprisoned, as reported by El Comercio.torgarle the asylum.
Moreno also noted that the British government has sent him an official communique stating that United Kingdom law prohibits extradition of a person to a place where his life is in danger, in reference to the United States.
Last month, The Washington Post revealed that US prosecutors have charged Assange in a covert proceeding over the publication of hundreds of classified documents from the Pentagon and the State Department on WikiLeaks. Although the charges were not released, he is likely to face the death penalty.
In addition, Moreno recalled, the 47-year-old Australian still faces a six-month prison sentence from the British government for violating the terms of his probation as he steps into the embassy in Ecuador in 2012 to avoid being arrested at the request of the authorities Swedish investigations of an alleged violation, which was shelved in May last year. His arrest warrant was ratified by a British court last February. H. T.