The fate of Assange is on a tightrope

The six-year asylum that Ecuador granted to Wikileaks activist and founder Julian Assange could be at stake, while Quito holds high-level talks with London to discuss the fate of the controversial hacker. 19659002] According to reports in the New York Post, it is possible that the administration of Lenin Moreno, who started a tour in the United Kingdom and Spain yesterday (July 21-27), will expel from his embassy to London the founder of Wikileaks, which has been designated as "a stone in the shoe".

But while the Moreno administration has changed its rhetoric about Assange over its predecessor (Rafael Correa), in recent months he has been trying to find a

For example, he got Ecuadorian nationality in 2017, although the measure was unsuccessful, since the English justice still maintains the arrest warrant against the founder of WikiLeaks. 19659002] However, Lenin's government discontinued Assange's Internet access, as well as a reduction in his visitors. The explanation provided by Quito was that the founder of WikiLeaks was violating an agreement by which he had agreed not to comment on the internal problems of other countries. "He has not respected an agreement that he himself has signed silence and non-intervention on the internal problems of other states," said Ecuadorian Foreign Minister María Fernanda Espinosa. For his part, Glen Greenwald, editor of the newspaper The Intercept and former journalist of the English newspaper The Guardian, warned that at the end of the visit of Moreno in London, an announcement could be made on the situation of Assange

The founder of WikiLeaks has repeatedly pointed out that behind the arrest imposed on him by London, the United States Government (USA), which requires it to publish more than 300,000 documents The Pentagon on the US military intervention in Iraq

The controversial hacker could also be asked in the investigation by the special prosecutor Robert Mueller on the Russian conspiracy in the US elections in 2016.

In this election contest, Wikileaks has published some 20,000 emails from Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign.

These e-mails were obtained, according to Mueller, by Russian hackers. Although in the past Assange said that this version was not true.

On Moreno's visit to the United Kingdom, the Ecuadorian government announced that the president will not meet Assange during his stay in London. "No, it is not planned," Deputy Foreign Minister Andrés Terán said in an interview with Teleamazonas

. Despite fears of a possible statement on Assange, Teran added: have some sort of official approach with the British government because the situation still does not deserve.

In this way, Assange will not be on the agenda of the Ecuadorian President, although he will attend other activities such as the World Summit on Disability. 19659002] IN FAVOR OF ASSASSANCE TO THE ASSANGE

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) has recently pronounced in favor of l & # 39; Assange asylum.

In an advisory document issued on July 12 According to the Ecuadorian newspaper El Comercio, the IACHR concluded that the concession and the scope of diplomatic asylum should be governed by national and interstate legislation,

. In its report, the IACHR notes that "States must arbitrate all the means necessary to protect the person in the event of a real risk to life, integrity, liberty or security if it is returned".

Ecuador in reference to the case of Assange, who remains at the Embassy of Ecuador in London since June 19, 2012. With this, the hacker ensures a "victory", like the Wikileaks account on Twitter

& # 39; Great victory for Julian Assange since the Inter-American Court of Human Rights just finds the right to seek asylum in embassies and that states must give a safe passage to refugees from the embassy, ​​"explains the tweet of Wikileaks.

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Lenin Moreno Visits London

The President of Ecuador, Lenin Moreno , began yesterday its eighth international trip since He took office in May 2017, which will take him to the UK and Spain in search of strengthening political, business and strategic linkages.

"The president will visit two European countries in the coming days, where he will discuss issues related to strengthening strategy, trade and the economy, attracting investment," he said. Minister of Commerce, Pablo Campana, in Efe.

Campana explained that "there are European companies that want to invest in the energy sector in Ecuador" and that presentations "to encourage the" 39, foreign investment.

& # 39; The president will also visit universities to talk about his experience in the social program "Las Manuelas & # 39; (help for the disabled) and also tell about his experiences of the vice president and now as president, "said the minister.

The minister said that" the message "of the current president is a "From dialogue, from commercial, economic opening, strengthening and relations with the whole world."

During his trip, he will be accompanied by foreign leaders, José Valencia Interior, Mauro Toscanini and Economy and Finance, Richard Martinez, all appointed in recent months.