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Interview With Julian Assange Inside Ecuadorian Embassy

Monday, September 3, 2012 5:20

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Uruguayan journalist Jorge Gestoso interviews Julian Assange from within the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. Originally aired on GamaTV, August 30, 2012.

Jorge Gestoso: Julian, do you believe that this interview is being heard or spied on by the London police that is surrounding this Embassy?

Julian Assange: Just a few days ago, it came out that SS10, a covert operations group, was involved in the policing around the Embassy, and also the counter-terrorism command. Quite interesting story where there was a police officer outside and a photographer from the Press Association used his zoom lens to zoom up on the piece of paper he was holding and could read all the details about what the police were doing around here. So, yes, we assume that.

Gestoso: The UK was threatening the Ecuadorian Government through a memorandum saying that they would be ready to storm the Embassy in order to arrest you. That happened the night before the Ecuadorian Government announces that you were having their diplomatic asylum. Tell us a little bit about that night.

Assange: Since I came to the Embassy two months ago, there was a policing presence; we had two policemen outside the front door most of the time. However, leading up to that night—with a formal threat made by the United Kingdom to Ecuador, saying that they had the right to go into the Embassy and take me—the number of police increased to fifty. So it was a really quite dramatic situation. We could hear police running up and down the stairs of the interior fire escape, big police vans being pulled around here. When we put out a notification that this was happening, many of our supporters turned up, some hundred people—over a hundred people—turned up outside the front, and they were live-streaming what was happening on their phones and so on, video taping constantly what was happening.

Gestoso: The press, they are criticising you, or criticising Ecuador, it’s… According to what you read, you can read that Julian Assange is Ecuador for its personal agenda, and Ecuador is using Julian Assange for political purposes for President Correa. Are you using Ecuador, or you feel that Ecuador is using you?

Assange: I don’t feel that we have been used at all. There’s a mutuality in values. There’s a mutuality also in the groups that are negatively affecting us and are negatively affecting Ecuador. So, this is… And I suppose we can even go beyond that. Let’s go straight down to the personal: that I am a person that, it has been established, is under a political persecution by the United States and its allies. That’s a fact. And that fact was recognised… We had to put a lot of work into giving the Ecuadorian Government evidence after evidence after evidence about that fact, and they created an assessment, and they’re right. They’re right that political persecution of me and our organisation is ongoing. So that’s enough. But if we then look into the broader context, Ecuador has been right to demonstrate its values in this case in, not just giving me asylum, but also then publicly. It should give every one asylum who deserves asylum and where it has the economic capacity to do so, but in going the extra mile to defending my rights in public. Because, my rights correlate to some of the values that Ecuador would like to project. And I think it does actually believe in those values.

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Comments

Total 6 comments

Anonymous

He’s a spy who’s done enormous damage to US security. He should be kidnapped and tortured as much as necessary so that he gives up his sources. Then he should be executed.

Sep 3, 2012, 5:36 am 0 Reply
- #1NWO hatr
  
  TROLL ALERT!!!
  
  Sep 3, 2012, 1:29 pm 0 Reply
Anonymous

Dear previous anonymous, you do realise of course that were what you suggest to happen, his friends would release the password to the encrypted files which have been distributed all over the world and probably bring down the USA government and many others with it when the people have proof of what has really been going on. Not a good idea then on second thoughts.
On another point governments monitor all telephone and other electronic traffic from all embassies and consulates of other countries on their soil. The buildings are regularly checked for electronic listening devices if the occupants found one and it could be proved to have been placed by host country it would cause an international incident the same as violating the diplomatic bag. Telephone wires and radio (wifi) signals are intercepted outside of the embassy so do not come into this category as not in protected area of the building.

Sep 3, 2012, 10:05 am 0 Reply
SKuNKy

Anonymous, you’re a traitor to truth, justice and freedom. I am not, therefore I do not think you should be “kidnapped, tortured and executed”, but i do think you need a serious reality check and to be removed from civilized society along with the rest of your brainwashed tyrant supporting ilk. At least until your ignorance is remedied or until it’s been determined you are a willing participant in the ongoing persecution of peace, freedom and morality. If that’s the case then you can go play “war and tyranny” with the others like you on your own little island and leave the rest of us to finally progress as a planet in peace.

Sep 3, 2012, 11:15 am 0 Reply
Anonymous

@Anonymous: Of course you’re joking. Right? Either you’re a brainwashed lemming or you’re on the Govenment payroll. So which is it?

Sep 3, 2012, 12:04 pm 0 Reply
Norry

How is it that these anonymous haters often seem to arrive first in the comments section? They don’t come back to argue their bs, just post crap and move on.
Why does this site still allow gutless comments from nobodies. To allow anyone to post so much hate as to want that person killed and to leave that post for all to see, when so many times this site censors inane nothingness, all because some prima donna story poster gets his nickers in a knot !
This is disgusting !!

Sep 3, 2012, 1:13 pm 0 Reply

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