Julian Assange launches legal action against Ecuador on his living conditions

Wikileaks, founded by Julian Assange, announced Friday (October 19th) that the latter had launched a legal action against Ecuador. Julian Assange has been a refugee in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London for six years. He blames the country for his living conditions.

Australia's Julian Assange, who has been in the Ecuadorian embassy in London for six years, has launched a legal action against the Quito government to protest against his living conditions, Wikileaks reported on Friday. Assange "accuses the government of Ecuador of violating its fundamental rights and freedom," the statement said, adding that the action will be launched by ex-judge Baltasar Garzon, who leads his defense, and is currently in Quito .

WikiLeaks' lawyer Judge Baltasar Garzón arrives in Ecuador to file case today over @ JulianAssange's isolation and gagging. Hearing next week. Background: https://t.co/2jOgvSu5bG pic.twitter.com/k4FSayQuev

The founder of Wikileaks, 47, found asylum in June 2012 in the embassy to escape extradition to Sweden, where he was wanted on charges of rape and sexual assault he denies. The procedure has since been closed.

Statement: WikiLeaks publisher @JulianAssange launches box against his continued gagging, duress https://t.co/uVQbYRlth1 pic.twitter.com/dOuX6r8Hu4

WikiLeaks points out that this action comes "seven months after Ecuador threatened to withdraw its protection and cut off access to the outside world, including by refusing to allow journalists and human rights organizations and scrambling his communications to prevent internet access and phone calls . " The Ecuadorian government had decided to partially restore the communications of Julian Assange in recent days.

"Inhumane situation"

Baltasar Garzon said on Thursday that Assange was living an "inhumane situation" at a press conference in Ambato, Ecuador. "This is not a convenient situation, it is an inhuman situation because the solution is slow, whereas it should already have been managed by the involved states which are Ecuador, the United States and Great Britain " Said the former Spanish magistrate.

Quito announced in March that he had cut off communication systems with the Australian's exterior, saying he had failed in his "written pledge not to publish messages that interfered with the (Ecuadorian) relationship with him. other States " .

This decision came after a series of tweets posted by Julian Assange in which he denounced including the arrest of the former Catalan president and independence leader Carles Puigdemont, or the sanctions taken by London against Russia in the Skripal case.

If the prosecution in Sweden against Assange was dropped in May 2017, the British justice reiterated in mid-February his refusal to lift his arrest warrant on the grounds that he had not complied in 2012 with the conditions of his release on bail .

The Australian fears, if he leaves the embassy, ​​to be arrested and extradited and tried in the United States for the publication by Wikileaks in 2010 of many US military secrets and diplomatic documents

The Ecuadorian government has spent at least five million dollars (4.2 million euros) to protect and especially monitor Julian Assange, revealed the Guardian last May.