"It's a dark day for freedom of the press" | The …

The withdrawal of the political asylum from WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and his subsequent arrest by the British police have had repercussions worldwide. Edward Snowden, a former National Security Agency (NSA) consultant, Russian, Catalan and even Ecuadorian exmandatario Rafael Correa, expressed their solidarity with Assange. "It's a dark day for freedom of the press," Snowden lamented. The leader of WikiLeaks was a refugee at the Embbady of Ecuador for seven years.

"The images of the Ecuadorian ambbadador inviting the secret police to enter the embbady to drag an editor – whether they like it or not – end up in the history books." Assange critics may celebrate, but it's a dark day for press freedom, "said Snowden.

For its part, Russia accused the British authorities of "strangling the freedom" by arresting the founder of WikiLeaks. "The hand of" democracy "strangles freedom," said spokeswoman for Russian diplomacy Maria Zajárova. "We hope that all your rights will be respected," said Kremlin spokesman Dimitri Peskov.

The former president of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, also rejected the detention of Assange, which "humanity will never forget". "Moreno is a corrupt man, but what he did is a crime that humanity will never forget," tweeted Correa on Twitter.

"Lenin Moreno, the greatest traitor in the history of Ecuador and Latin America, allowed the British police to enter our embbady in London to arrest Assange," lamented the exmandatario. For Correa, Moreno "demonstrated his human misery to the whole world, delivering to Julian Assange – not only an asylum, but also an Ecuadorian citizen – to the British police", which puts his life "in danger" and "humiliates him". 39; Ecuador. "

Correa joked about the "sovereign decision" to which the current president of Ecuador alluded. "Nice label for treason, foreign police entry" at the Ecuadorian Embbady in London and "the handing over of an Ecuadorian citizen", he said.

The leader of the Catalan independence, Carles Puigdemont, also expressed his solidarity with the founder of WikiLeaks. "I am very shocked by the arrest of Julian Assange in London. Human rights, and in particular the freedom of expression, are once again under attack in Europe," tweeted Puigdemont, a Belgian resident, who expressed his "solidarity" against this "unfair" situation. "

Assange was a refugee at the Embbady of Ecuador in London on June 19, 2012, where he had asked to be protected, to escape a European arrest warrant issued by Sweden at the following charges of alleged badual crimes. The computer scientist said it was an American project to extradite and try him for publishing in 2010 hundreds of thousands of secret documents, which implied a strong commitment from Washington.