The Ecuadorian authorities have fabricated claims about Julian Assange’s alleged “gross misbehavior” at its embassy as a pretext to give up him to the UK police, the WikiLeaks founder’s lawyer mentioned.
“The first thing to say is [that] Ecuador has been making some outrageous allegations,” Assange’s lawyer, Jennifer Robinson, informed Sky News on Sunday following the whistleblower’s arrest earlier this week. Quito made these claims to divert public consideration from its personal misdeeds and to “justify the unlawful and extraordinary act of letting police come inside an embassy,” she added.
Earlier, Ecuadorian Interior Minister Maria Paula Romo complained in regards to the embassy employees having to tolerate gross misconduct for much too lengthy. The 47-year-old was particularly accused of “putting feces on the walls,” amongst different issues. He was additionally alleged to have left soiled underwear in the bathroom, failed to clear dishes, and left a cooker on.
Apart from that, the embassy employees complained earlier that the WikiLeaks founder additionally listened to loud music and skateboarded inside the embassy corridor at evening – claims that make the whistleblower sound like a rowdy teenager.
Robinson dismissed all these allegations as “not true” and hit again by saying that it was the Ecuadorian authorities that finally turned the whistleblower’s life within the embassy into a kind of a solitary confinement as he was holed up for seven years.
“I’ve been visiting him for the last seven years. This man has been inside a room with no outside access. Inside the embassy, it has become more difficult,” the lawyer mentioned, including that Ecuador’s angle to Assange drastically modified for the more serious after its present president, Lenin Moreno, got here to energy.
On Sunday, the Spanish day by day El Pais published a video from the embassy’s safety digital camera, which certainly reveals Assange skateboarding by the diplomatic mission’s room whereas carrying shorts (it’s unclear whether or not the footage was taken at evening). None of the dirtier claims have but been supported by proof, although.
The Moreno authorities did make Assange’s life harder in his final two years on the embassy as he was disadvantaged of web entry, and no private visits had been allowed for a time. Earlier this week, the Ecuadorian president additionally revoked his asylum, opening the best way for his detention.
The claims about Assange’s alleged misbehavior weren’t the one weird statements made by the Ecuadorian authorities about the whistleblower’s life on the embassy.