WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who was arrested in London on Thursday after Quito withdrew his political asylum, will not be extradited to any country where he could face “torture or the death penalty,” Ecuador’s president says.
“I asked Great Britain for the guarantee that Mr. Assange will not be extradited to any country in which he could suffer torture or the death penalty,” President Lenin Moreno says in a video message posted on social media.
“The British government has confirmed in writing” that they will meet this requirement, Moreno says.
Assange was arrested in London on a US warrant over his alleged role in a massive leak of military and intelligence documents in 2010, according to the US Justice Department.
Those charges do not carry the death penalty, however. Assange instead faces up to five years in jail on a federal charge of “conspiracy to commit computer intrusion for agreeing to break a password to a classified US government computer,” the Justice Department says.
— AFP
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