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REPORT: Ecuadorian Government Ready To Turn Over Wikileaks’ Julian Assange

Emily Zanotti

Time may be running out for Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange.

According to a report in The Intercept, Ecuadorian officials are “planning to withdraw asylum” from Assange, who has been staying in the Ecuadorian embassy in London since 2012, avoiding a warrant for his arrest out of Sweden — where he was accused of sexually assaulting a teenage girl — and potential extradition to the United States, where he could face espionage and conspiracy charges.

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