Ecuador says UK has given ‘guarantees’ for Assange to leave embassy
Lenín Moreno said Ecuador has received written assurances UK would not extradite Assange to face death penalty
Ecuador has received written assurances from the UK government that it would not to extradite Julian Assange to any country where he would face the death penalty, the country’s president, Lenín Moreno, has said.
In a live radio interview on Thursday, Moreno said that the WikiLeaks founder now had sufficient guarantees to leave Ecuador’s embassy in the UK, where he has lived under asylum since mid-2012.