> From: "WikiLeaks / Sunshine Press" <[email protected]> > Subject: "Leaked" Assange transcript sheds light on expulsion > Date: 7 April 2019 3:46:01 am GMT+2 > > Julian Assange has not been heard from in public since March 28, 2018 after > an executive gag order by the government of Ecuador. > > The unpublished, "leaked" transcript of Mr. Assange is from October 29, 2018 > where he asked an Ecuadorian court for an urgent injunction ("protection > order") against his gagging and isolation. The court banned journalists and > the public from recording the proceedings although a court recording was > subsequently obtained through legal process. It has never been revealed > before. > > Last December the New York Times revealed the country's president tried to > sell Assange to the US for debt relief > <https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/03/us/politics/manafort-assange-wikileaks-ecuador.html>. > Ecuador received $4.2 billion in a US backed IMF bailout in February. The US > seeks his extradition for his 2010 publications on war and diplomacy. His > alleged source, Chelsea Manning, was re-jailed last month to coerce her into > a secret interrogation against him. > > On Friday WikiLeaks revealed that two government sources said Mr. Assange's > expulsion would be in a matter of "hours or days" leading to a public > backlash against the government and the intervention of two UN Special > Rapporteurs. In response, Ecuador's ministry of Foreign Affairs, in menacing > statement released at 3am this morning (GMT), stated that revoking asylum is > a "sovereign act" but that his expulsion is not "imminent" -- but declined to > define what was meant by "imminent" or rule out a non-imminent expulsion. > > In March 2018, the Ecuador's President took effective control of most courts, > removing judges at will, even from the nation's Constitutional court > <https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/10/12/ecuadorian-president-lenin-morenos-assault-on-human-rights-and-judicial-independence/>. > Mr. Assange's judge did not grant the injunction. > > Further background > <https://defend.wikileaks.org/2019/03/26/briefing-for-the-council-of-europe-why-opposing-julian-assanges-extradition-to-the-u-s-matters-for-european-democracy/>
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