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Today, Ecuador removed Assange’s personal belongings to send them to the U.S. to use in his new grand jury indictment case. This includes personal items like his glasses, his defense files, his laptops, memory cards and clothes.The illegal seizure of these items was done with neither Assange’s lawyers present or the U.N. rapporteur who requested to be there. No legal authority can guarantee his computers, data, etc. have not been tampered with. This is completely illegal and is yet another violation of Assange’s rights.

According to abcnews:

It’s not known what devices authorities removed from the embassy or what information they contained. But authorities said they were acting on a request by the U.S. prosecutors, leading Assange’s defenders to claim that Ecuador has undermined the most basic principles of asylum while denying the secret-spiller’s right to prepare his defense. “It’s disgraceful,” WikiLeaks’ editor in chief, Kristinn Hrafnsson, said in an interview with The Associated Press. “Ecuador granted him asylum because of the threat of extradition to the U.S. and now the same country, under new leadership, is actively collaborating with a criminal investigation against him.”

Asylum is legally supposed to protect one from the country that seeks to hurt you. Instead, under Lenin Moreno, his asylum was revoked, he was tortured, lied about and treated like a criminal in the last year he was there.

Hrafnsson, who has visited the Australian activist in jail, said Assange saw his eviction coming for weeks as relations with President Lenin Moreno’s government deteriorated, so he took great care to scrub computers and hard drives of any compromising material, including future planned leaks or internal communications with WikiLeaks collaborators. Still, Hrafnsson said he fully expects Moreno or the Americans to claim revelations that don’t exist. He called Monday’s proceedings a “horse show” because no legal authority can guarantee Assange’s devices haven’t been tampered with, or the chain of custody unbroken, in the six weeks since his arrest. “If anything surfaces, I can assure you it would’ve been planted,” he said. “Julian isn’t a novice when it comes to security and securing his information. We expected this to happen and protections have been in place for a very long time.” Ecuadorian authorities said they will hand over any belongings not given to U.S. or Ecuadorian investigators to Assange’s lawyers, who weren’t invited to Monday’s inventory-taking. Hrafnsson said he didn’t have a full inventory of Assange’s devices.

The whole proceedings against Assange, including the reopened case in Sweden verifies the Stratfor email that Wikileaks published, seen below:

To the U.S. government, Assange is not a human being but property. They feel they can do whatever they want with him without consequence. The lawlessness of this act goes against any principles set forward by the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights. No one is safe from the empire.

Assange was purchased from Ecuador to the tune of a 4.6 billion dollar IMF loan and several trade deals. Moreno sold his country for pices of silver in an epic act of treachery and betrayal much like Judas Iscariot. What he doesn’t realize is there are consequences to his kind of evil.

The real question though is how long before they come after us?

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