How Shoddy Reporting and Anti-Russian Propaganda Coerced Ecuador to Silence Julian Assange
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“Evidence has now emerged that the cutting off of Assange’s
communications with the outside world is the byproduct of serious
diplomatic pressure being applied to the new Ecuadorian president,
pressure that may very well lead, perhaps imminently, to Assange being
expelled from the embassy altogether. The pressure is coming from the
Spanish government in Madrid and its NATO allies, furious that Assange
has expressed opposition to some of the repressive measures used to try to crush activists in support of Catalan independence.”
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“The campaign to depict Catalan unrest as a plot fueled by the Kremlin,
Assange and even Edward Snowden have largely come from fraudulent
assertions in the Spanish daily El País...”
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