British police has arrested Julian Assange at Ecuadorean embassy

Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks was arrested on Thursday by British police. He was carried out of the Ecuadorean embassy, where he has been holed up for nearly seven years, to avoid extradition to Sweden over a sexual assault case that has since been dropped.

Police said, “Julian Assange, 47, has today, Thursday 11 April, been arrested by officers from the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) at the Embassy of Ecuador”.

Police said that Assange was arrested after being “invited into the embassy by the Ambassador, following the Ecuadorean government’s withdrawal of asylum.”

The arrest’s video showed a gray-bearded Assange being pulled by British police officers down the steps of the embassy and shoved into a waiting police van. In the video, Assange was found to be resisting the police physically.

The UK will be taking decisions whether to handover Assange, in response to allegations by the Department for Justice that he conspired with former US intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning to download classified databases.

If convicted on the charges of conspiracy to commit computer intrusion, he faces up to five years in US prison.

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