[속보] 에콰도르 망명 생활 위키리크스 '어산지', 영국 경찰에 6년만에 체포 [Breaking News] VIDEO: Julian Assange arrested after Ecuador tears up asylum deal


Julian Assange arrested after Ecuador tears up asylum deal

Published time: 11 Apr, 2019 09:38


Julian Assange arrested after Ecuador tears up asylum deal


Wikileaks founder Julian Assange speaks on the balcony of the Embassy of Ecuador in London, May 2017. © Reuters


 

에콰도르 망명 생활 위키리크스 '어산지', 영국 경찰에 6년만에 체포


위키리크스의 설립자 줄리안 어산지가 지난 6년을 보낸 런던 주재 에콰도르 대사관에서 추방됐다. 에콰도르 대통령은 에콰도르 정부가 어샌지에게 망명 허용을 철회했다고 발표했다.


이번 퇴출은 위키리크스의 호주 설립자이 영국 당국에 넘겨질 것이라는 보도에 이은 것이다. 


하지만 에콰도르는 이 같은 보도를 부인하며 그의 보호대상 지위를 박탈할 생각은 없다고 밝혔지만 쿠이토에 의해 또 다른 결정이 내려진 것으로 보인다.


어산지는 2017년 현 대통령이 중남미에서 집권한 이후 에콰도르 관료들과의 관계가 점점 더 긴장되는 듯 보였다. 그의 인터넷 연결은 작년 3월에 끊겼는데, 관계자들은 이번 조치가 어산지가 "다른 주권국가들의 문제에 개입하는 것"을 막기 위한 것이라고 말했다.


*줄리언 폴 어산지 Julian Assange(1971~ )

오스트레일리아의 액티비즘 저널리스트이다. 그는 내부 고발자 웹사이트인 위키리크스의 대변인과 주필로도 잘 알려져 있으며 위키리크스를 운영하기 전에는 컴퓨터 프로그래머로 근무했다. 위키백과


황기철 콘페이퍼 에디터 큐레이터

Ki Cheol Hwang, conpaper editor, curator


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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been evicted from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London where he has spent the last six years. Ecuador's president has announced that the country has withdrawn asylum from Assange.




The eviction follows reports that the Australian founder of the WikiLeaks whistleblowing portal would be handed over to British authorities. Ecuador denied the reports and said it had no intention of stripping him of his protected status, but apparently another decision was made by Quito.


Assange's relationship with Ecuadorian officials appeared increasingly strained since the current president came to power in the Latin American country in 2017. His internet connection was cut off in March of last year, with officials saying the move was to stop Assange from "interfering in the affairs of other sovereign states."


 

julian assange wikileaks/Daily Express

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The whistleblower garnered massive international attention in 2010 when WikiLeaks released classified US military footage, entitled 'Collateral Murder', of a US Apache helicopter gunship opening fire on a number of people, killing 12 including two Reuters staff, and injuring two children.


The footage, as well as US war logs from Iraq and Afghanistan and more than 200,000 diplomatic cables, were leaked to the site by US Army soldier Chelsea Manning. She was tried by a US tribunal and sentenced to 35 years in jail for disclosing the materials.




Manning was pardoned by outgoing President Barack Obama in 2017 after spending seven years in US custody. She is currently being held again in a US jail for refusing to testify before a secret grand jury in a case apparently related to WikiLeaks.

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