WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s six-year refuge at the Ecuadorian embassy in London could soon be coming to a close, according to a Friday report from CNN.
Assange has lived in asylum at the Ecuadorian embassy since 2012, but if he is forced to leave, he will likely be arrested by British authorities and extradited to the U.S. for prosecution.
Sources told CNN that, though Assange’s position in the embassy has come under threat in the past, this situation is “unusually bad.”
Assange’s position is in “jeopardy,” according to a source familiar with the matter, and he could be leaving the embassy “any day now” either by being forced out or made to feel so restricted that he wants to leave of his own volition.
“The concern from day one until the present is that if Julian Assange walks out of the Embassy, he will be extradited to face what the executive director of the ACLU described as an ‘unprecedented and unconstitutional’ prosecution under the U.S. Espionage Act,” Assange’s lawyer Melinda Taylor said.
