{"id":25590,"date":"2014-08-19T16:43:07","date_gmt":"2014-08-19T20:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.opensource.im\/?p=25590"},"modified":"2014-08-19T16:43:07","modified_gmt":"2014-08-19T20:43:07","slug":"julian-assange-to-leave-ecuadorian-embassy-in-london-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wikileaks\/julian-assange-to-leave-ecuadorian-embassy-in-london-soon.php","title":{"rendered":"Julian Assange to leave Ecuadorian Embassy in London &#8216;soon&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>      By Faith Karimi, CNN    <\/p>\n<p>      updated 7:41 AM EDT, Mon August 18, 2014    <\/p>\n<p>          STORY HIGHLIGHTS        <\/p>\n<p>      (CNN) -- WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said he'll leave the      Ecuadorian Embassy in London \"soon\" after living there for      two years to avoid extradition to Sweden.    <\/p>\n<p>      \"I can confirm I am leaving the embassy soon, but not for the      reason you might think,\" Assange said at a news conference      Monday.    <\/p>\n<p>      He did not provide additional details but said he is      suffering from health problems and would leave \"when      conditions are right.\"    <\/p>\n<p>      However, WikiLeaks said, \"his departure is not imminent.\"    <\/p>\n<p>      Ecuador's foreign minister, who sat next to him, said his      freedom is long overdue.    <\/p>\n<p>      \"The situation must come to an end ... two years is too      long,\" Ricardo Patino said. \"It is time to free Julian      Assange. It is time for his human rights to be respected.\"    <\/p>\n<p>      Swedish authorities want to question him over allegations      that he raped one woman and sexually molested another.    <\/p>\n<p><!-- Auto Generated --><\/p>\n<p>Read more:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2014\/08\/18\/world\/europe\/julian-assange-ecuador-embassy\/index.html\/RK=0\/RS=gnzdRPruKhavf0XcK8ygDIQz4QM-\" title=\"Julian Assange to leave Ecuadorian Embassy in London 'soon'\">Julian Assange to leave Ecuadorian Embassy in London 'soon'<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Faith Karimi, CNN updated 7:41 AM EDT, Mon August 18, 2014 STORY HIGHLIGHTS (CNN) -- WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said he'll leave the Ecuadorian Embassy in London \"soon\" after living there for two years to avoid extradition to Sweden. \"I can confirm I am leaving the embassy soon, but not for the reason you might think,\" Assange said at a news conference Monday. He did not provide additional details but said he is suffering from health problems and would leave \"when conditions are right.\" However, WikiLeaks said, \"his departure is not imminent.\" Ecuador's foreign minister, who sat next to him, said his freedom is long overdue. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wikileaks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25590"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}