Ecuadorian court revokes citizenship for Julian Assange

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>Ecuador has revoked the citizenship of Julian Assange&comma; the founder of Wikileaks who is currently in a British prison&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Ecuador’s justice system formally notified the Australian of the nullity of his naturalisation in a letter that came in response to a claim filed by the South American country’s Foreign Ministry&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A naturalisation is considered damaging when it is granted based on the concealment of relevant facts&comma; false documents or fraud&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Ecuadorian authorities say Assange’s naturalisation letter had multiple inconsistencies&comma; different signatures&comma; the possible alteration of documents and unpaid fees&comma; among other issues&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Carlos Poveda&comma; Assange’s lawyer&comma; told the Associated Press the decision was made without due process and Assange was not allowed to appear in the case&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><&excl;--Ads1--><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;On the date &lpar;Assange&rpar; was cited he was deprived of his liberty and with a health crisis inside the deprivation of liberty centre where he was being held&comma;” Mr Poveda said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The lawyer said he will file appeals asking for amplification and clarification of the decision&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;More than the importance of nationality&comma; it is a matter of respecting rights and following due process in withdrawing nationality&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Assange received Ecuadorian citizenship in January 2018 as part of a failed attempt by the government of then-president Lenin Moreno to turn him into a diplomat to get him out of its embassy in London&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>On Monday&comma; the Pichincha Court for Contentious Administrative Matters revoked this decision&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Ecuador’s Foreign Ministry told AP the court &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;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”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Assange&comma; 50&comma; has been in London’ high-security Belmarsh Prison since he was arrested in April 2019 for skipping bail seven years earlier during a separate legal battle&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He spent seven years inside Ecuador’s London embassy&comma; where he fled in 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden to face allegations of rape and sexual assault&period; Sweden dropped the sex crimes investigations in November 2019 because so much time had elapsed&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><&excl;--Ads2--><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>US prosecutors have indicted Assange on 17 espionage charges and one charge of computer misuse over WikiLeaks’ publication of thousands of leaked military and diplomatic documents&period; 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