Free Assange • #Repost @thealtkek with @get_repost ・・・ 🚨 🚨 🚨 ASSANGE 🚨 🚨 🚨 #repost @alisalovestruth . . . “Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Maria Fernanda Espinosa stated in a Spanish-language interview on Wednesday that her government and Britain “have the intention and the interest that this be resolved.” Moves were underway, she said, to reach a “definite agreement” on Assange. If #Assange falls into the hands of the #British state, he faces being turned over to the US. Last year, US Attorney General #JeffSessions stated that putting Assange on trial for espionage was a “priority.” #CIA director Mike Pompeo, now secretary of state, asserted that #WikiLeaks was a “non-state hostile intelligence service.” In 2010, WikiLeaks courageously published information leaked by then Private Bradley [now Chelsea] Manning that exposed war crimes committed by American forces in #Iraq and #Afghanistan WikiLeaks also published, in partnership with some of the world’s major newspapers, tens of thousands of secret diplomatic cables, exposing the daily anti-democratic intrigues of US imperialism and numerous other governments. For that, Assange was relentlessly persecuted by the #Obama administration. By November 2010, it had convened a secret grand jury and had a warrant issued for his arrest on charges of espionage—charges that can carry the death sentence. The then Labor Party government in Australia headed by Prime Minister #JuliaGillard threw Assange, an #Australian citizen, to the wolves. It refused to provide him any defence and declared it would work with the US to have him detained and put on trial. On June 19, 2012, under conditions in which he faced extradition to Sweden to answer questions over fabricated allegations of sexual assault, and the prospect of rendition to the United States, Assange sought asylum in the Ecuador’s embassy in #London Since that time, for nearly six years, he has been largely confined to a small room with no direct sunlight. He has been prevented from leaving, even to obtain medical treatment, by the British government’s insistence it will arrest him for breaching bail as soon as he sets foot outside the embassy.” https://www.wsws.org/en