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Title: Ecuador's president says Julian Assange can stay in embassy 'with conditions'
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URL Source: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2 ... ecuador-president-lenin-moreno
Published: Jun 1, 2018
Author: Dan Collyns in Lima
Post Date: 2018-06-01 13:14:52 by Ada
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Views: 91
Comments: 12
Assange must follow rules and avoid talking politics on Twitter – otherwise Lenín Moreno says he will ‘take a decision’ Moreno has repeatedly hinted that he wants to remove Julian Assange from the country’s London embassy. Moreno has repeatedly hinted that he wants to remove Julian Assange from the country’s London embassy. Photograph: Daniel Leal-Olivas/AFP/Getty Images Lenín Moreno, the president of Ecuador, has said Julian Assange’s asylum status in the country’s London embassy is not under threat – provided he complies with the conditions of his stay and avoids voicing his political opinions on Twitter. However, in an interview with Deutsche Welle on Wednesday, Moreno said his government would “take a decision” if Assange didn’t comply with the restrictions. “Let’s not forget the conditions of his asylum prevent him from speaking about politics or intervening in the politics of other countries. That’s why we cut his communication,” he said. Ecuador suspended Assange’s communication’s system in March. Revealed: Ecuador spent millions on spy operation for Julian Assange Read more Moreno’s statements come two weeks after an investigation by the Guardian and Focus Ecuador revealed the country had bankrolled a multimillion-dollar spy operation to protect and support Assange, employing an international security company and undercover agents to monitor his visitors, embassy staff and even the British police. Over more than five years, Ecuador put at least $5m (£3.7m) into a secret intelligence budget that protected him while he had visits from Nigel Farage, members of European nationalist groups and individuals linked to the Kremlin. Advertisement –– ADVERTISEMENT –– Earlier this month, Moreno withdrew additional security assigned to the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where the WikiLeaks founder has remained for almost six years. Moreno has previously described Assange’s situation as “a stone in his shoe” and repeatedly hinted that he wants to remove the Australian from the country’s London embassy. In an interview in Quito, the president said granting Assange Ecuadorian citizenship in December last year had not been his idea but that of the foreign minister, María Fernanda Espinosa. He had delegated all decisions related to the case to her, Moreno told Deutsche Welle. “I told the foreign minister she should, with complete freedom, choose how to solve the problem. And she chose that system. It wasn’t the most suitable, but I respected it,” he said. Sign up to the Media Briefing: news for the news-makers Read more He denied that external pressure from the United States or any other countries had influenced his government’s treatment of Assange whom he said had “surpassed the limits of freedom of expression”. Assange had tweeted in support of the Catalan independence movement and challenged the UK’s accusation that Russia was responsible for the poisoning of a Russian former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter. “Liberty must be used with a lot of responsibility,” Moreno said, without confirming whether or not Assange’s access to the internet would be restored. Rafael Correa, Moreno’s predecessor who approved of the operation, defended the security measures as “routine and modest”.
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#1. To: Ada (#0)
He's demanding that he be somebody else -- totally unreasonable and it has to be from US/UK pressure. Surprised there's no mention of his personal hygiene. Sad reality about Catalonia: wideawakegentile.wordpres...e-newest-european-kosher- state/ I'm having much trouble getting around in 4um -- it's sluggish and unresponsive. Anybody else? _____________________________________________________________ USA! USA! USA! Bringing you democracy, or else! there were strains of VD that were incurable, and they were first found in the Philippines and then transmitted to the Korean working girls via US military. The 'incurables' we were told were first taken back to a military hospital in the Philippines to quietly die. – 4um
Probably the Utah Data Center, takes a long time to get through secondary inspection. We must be on "the list". Probularly. I take it you haven't been having this trouble?
_____________________________________________________________ USA! USA! USA! Bringing you democracy, or else! there were strains of VD that were incurable, and they were first found in the Philippines and then transmitted to the Korean working girls via US military. The 'incurables' we were told were first taken back to a military hospital in the Philippines to quietly die. – 4um
I have as well. Until you confirmed I wasn't sure whether it was my browser, but I guess not.
I'm not hosting 4um so can't speak for whatever other traffic there might be on the server, or other similar issues.
Sorry. I thought you were.
No problem. I used to host it, and I still host LF. I've been offered the choice to put it back on my server, but haven't decided to do so.
I've been having the same trouble for a couple of days. Slow to load, sometimes times out with an error message. Apparently the USA has so much power that, in effect, the USA is the world's ruler and dictator that no other country dares to disobey.
At times 4um just will not load and I get blank page. When I should be seeing Latest Comments it comes up with the title ok, but none of the comments are listed. Can't figure it out. ;) "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
How long has it been going on, B? Just recently, right? Closing other windows seems to help, except when it doesn't. _____________________________________________________________ USA! USA! USA! Bringing you democracy, or else! there were strains of VD that were incurable, and they were first found in the Philippines and then transmitted to the Korean working girls via US military. The 'incurables' we were told were first taken back to a military hospital in the Philippines to quietly die. – 4um
It was just doing it a few minutes ago but now it seems to be ok. ;) "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
#2. To: NeoconsNailed (#1)
I'm having much trouble getting around in 4um -- it's sluggish and unresponsive. Anybody else?
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#3. To: hondo68 (#2)
#4. To: NeoconsNailed, Pinguinite (#1)
I'm having much trouble getting around in 4um -- it's sluggish and unresponsive. Anybody else?
#5. To: Ada (#4)
#6. To: Pinguinite (#5)
I'm not hosting 4um so can't speak for whatever other traffic there might be on the server, or other similar issues.
#7. To: Ada (#6)
Sorry. I thought you were.
#8. To: NeoconsNailed (#3)
I take it you haven't been having this trouble?
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#9. To: Ada (#0)
#10. To: NeoconsNailed (#1)
I'm having much trouble getting around in 4um -- it's sluggish and unresponsive. Anybody else?
#11. To: BTP Holdings (#10)
#12. To: NeoconsNailed (#11)
How long has it been going on, B? Just recently, right?
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