{"id":190422,"date":"2021-08-02T12:01:24","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T11:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=190422"},"modified":"2021-07-30T08:30:43","modified_gmt":"2021-07-30T07:30:43","slug":"court-withdraws-assanges-ecuadorean-nationality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2021\/08\/court-withdraws-assanges-ecuadorean-nationality\/","title":{"rendered":"Court Withdraws Assange\u2019s Ecuadorean Nationality"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p class=\"op-kicker\"><em>Assange, who currently remains in a U.K. prison, received Ecuadorean citizenship in 2018 despite pressure from former president Lenin Moreno to\u00a0force him out of the embassy.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>28 Jul 2021 &#8211; <\/em>An Ecuadorean court revoked the citizenship of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange without allowing him to participate in the process, his lawyers denounced today.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telesurenglish.net\/news\/Journalism-Is-No-Crime-Assanges-Supporters-Reject-Denied-Bail-20210106-0005.html\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Journalism Is No Crime: Assange&#8217;s Supporters Reject Denied Bail<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;On the date he was cited, he was deprived of his liberty and with a health crisis inside the deprivation of liberty center where he was being held,&#8221; Assange&#8217;s lawyer Carlos Poveda said, as reported by AP.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We are in front of the justice department inIn wahsington dc calling on them to drop the charges against Julian Assange <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/freeassange?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" >#freeassange<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VyOff0qD3z\" >pic.twitter.com\/VyOff0qD3z<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Medea Benjamin (@medeabenjamin) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/medeabenjamin\/status\/1420424923449810945?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" >July 28, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Assange, who currently remains in a U.K. prison, received Ecuadorean citizenship in 2018 despite pressure from former president Lenin Moreno to force him out of the embassy.<\/p>\n<p>According to Ecuador&#8217;s Foreign Minister, the court &#8220;acted independently and followed due process in a case that took place during the previous government and that was raised by the same previous government.&#8221; The court remarked problems with unpaid fees and naturalization papers.<\/p>\n<p>However, the lawyers highlighted that the decision was taken without due process, and Assange will appeal. 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