Ecuador President Lenin Moreno said that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has repeatedly violated his asylum conditions at the country’s embassy in London.
“We should ensure Mr Assange’s life is not at risk but he’s violated the agreement we have with him so many times,” Moreno told the Ecuadorian radio broadcasters association Tuesday, the Guardian reported.
Moreno says that Assange, who sought asylum at the London embassy seven years ago and has been living there ever since, “cannot lie or, much less, hack into private accounts or private phones” and he could not “intervene in the politics of countries, or worse friendly countries” under the agreement.
He then said, stopping short of blaming WikiLeaks, that photos of his bedroom, the food he ate, and his wife, daughters, and friends have been widely shared on social media.
The Ecuadorian government says, however, that it believes the photos of Moreno’s room and family were initially shared by WikiLeaks.
From its Twitter account, WikiLeaks posted that Moreno said he would make a decision on Assange’s fate “in the short term.”
Ecuador”s President Lenin Moreno stated today that Assange has “violated the ‘conditions’ of his asylum” and that he will “take a decision” “in the short term” after @WikiLeaks reported on the existence of the #INAPapers offshore corruption scandal wracking his government.
— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) April 2, 2019
