translated from Spanish: President of Ecuador said that it expelled Assange “disrespectful”

the President of Ecuador, Lenin Moreno, defended the decision that withdrew the diplomatic asylum to Julian Assange. The President explained that the diplomatic measure was raised, inter alia, by its aggressive and disrespectful behavior and rude statements and menacing Wikileaks against Ecuador. Meanwhile, Moscow denounced the arrest of Julian Assange is an attack on freedom. “The hand of ‘democracy’ strangles freedom”, wrote in his account of the social network Facebook. the spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Russian, María Zajárova. For his part, Dmitri Peskov, the Kremlin spokesman, expressed the hope of London “respect all the rights” of the detained activist. Several police officers pulled Assange forcibly and handcuffed by the Ecuadorian diplomatic delegation, then insert it into a police car. The European Commission (EC) said that it will continue to “closely” the arrest of the activist and added that it is a matter in the hands of the judges. “We have informed a few minutes ago and as general rule not improvise a position on events that are being developed as we are on the podium,” said the EC, Margaritis Schinas, chief spokesman during the daily press of the Executive Conference community. Accordingly recognized that “as regards a European judicial arrest in which Sweden is also involved, this will be discussed often here”, he said, in reference to the country that calls from 2012 delivery for alleged sex crimes. The Swedish prosecutor’s Office reported that it has not taken a position on the situation of WikiLeaks founder following his arrest in London, but said that the case against it could reopen. The arrest of Assange responded to a request for extradition from the United States, as well as to the fact of having violated the conditions of probation in 2012, said Scotland Yard. “A preliminary investigation can resume while they have not prescribed offences. In this case, the alleged violation prescribed in mid-August of 2020 “, said the Prosecutor’s Office in a statement. The Swedish authorities closed the preliminary inquiry against Assange, opened seven years ago by various sexual crimes, unable to advance his refuge on the Ecuadorian Embassy in may 2017.

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