Assange’s wife condemns “brutal invasion” of the Mexican embassy

Mexico City. The wife of the founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, described this Tuesday the assault on the Mexican Embassy in Ecuador carried out on Friday by the Ecuadorian police as a “brutal invasion.”

Stella Assange pointed out that the action ordered by Daniel Noboa’s government joins “Ecuador’s recent history of violating international law regarding political asylum,” along with what happened in 2019 when Lenín Moreno’s government revoked the asylum that his country had granted the Australian and allowed him to be arrested by the United Kingdom police at the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where he had taken refuge for seven years.

Returning to the images released earlier by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador of security cameras inside the Mexican embassy at the time of the raid, Stella Assange highlighted that “the Ecuadorian security forces held a senior diplomat at gunpoint. Mexican before violently holding him while they kidnapped political refugee Jorge Glas.”

Julian Assange is imprisoned in the United Kingdom waiting for the authorities of that nation to decide whether to hand him over to the United States, which accuses him of having published, starting in 2010, more than 700,000 confidential documents on American military and diplomatic activities, especially in Iraq and Afghanistan.