UK Govt Deployed 15 Staff On Secret Op To Seize Assange

According to newly released documents, the British government deployed at least 15 people to the Secret Op to take Julian Assange from the Ecuadorian embassy in London.

Although Ecuador granted political refuge to the WikiLeaks founder in 2012, he was never given permission to leave Britain in a safe manner to escape prosecution by the United States government.

The Australian journalist has spent the last three and a half years in Belmarsh Maximum Security Prison and could receive a 175-year sentence after the High Court of England and Wales approved (pdf below) his extradition to the United States in December 2021.

The secret Metropolitan Police investigation known as "Pelican" eventually resulted in the arrest of Assange from his asylum in April 2019. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights recognises asylum as a right.

The operation's existence was finally made public in Sir Alan Duncan's memoirs, which were released last year. In response to requests for informat...

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