ASSANGE DAYS AT ECUADORIAN EMBASSY MAY BE NUMBERED

Washington, May 25: American whistleblower and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s nearly six- year shelter at the Ecuadorian embassy in London is in danger. It paves the way for his arrest by British authorities and potential extradition to the US, sources said.

They added that his current situation is “unusually bad” and that he could leave the embassy “any day now,” either because he will be forced out or made to feel so restricted that he might choose to leave himself.

Assange’s exit from the embassy could open a new phase for US investigators eager to find out what he knows.

Assange and his lawyers say he has been detained without charge for 2,720 days — 53 of those “gagged” and isolated from visitors and outside communications — and that there is “not a shred of evidence that Assange has done anything but publish material just as the establishment media do every day,” according to a tweet by his lawyers on May 19.

Ecuador’s newly elected president, Lenín Moreno, is under increasing pressure from the US to expel Assange, sources say. Moreno described Assange as an “inherited problem” and “more than a nuisance” in a television interview in January.

Sources familiar also believe Spain exerted pressure on Ecuador after Assange tweeted support for the separatist movements in Catalonia.

ASSANGE AND his lawyers say he has been detained without charge for 2,720 days — 53 of those “gagged” and isolated from visitors and outside communications