Assange to be kicked out of embassy? Wikileaks founder clashes with Ecuador over Catalonia
JULIAN Assange may have put his safe sanctuary at risk as he clashed with the Ecuadorian president on Catalan independence.
By Ben Weich
PUBLISHED: 16:08, Sun, Oct 15, 2017
UPDATED: 16:18, Sun, Oct 15, 2017
The Wikileaks Founder’s support for Catalan separatists has antagonised the new president, Lenin Moreno, who had asked the Australian hacker to stay out of the independence debate.
Responding to the president on Twitter, Assange accused President Moreno of attempting to silence him.
He wrote: “If President Moreno wants to gag my reporting of human rights abuses in Spain he should say so explicitly — together with the legal basis.
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