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    Greg Caton, an American expat resident in Ecuador who makes Cansema (also known as Amazon Black Salve, a very effective skin cancer CURE which really does work), was seized by American agents a few years ago and flown to America where he was thrown into jail.

    The Ecuadorian government forbade the kidnap with a highest-level court order, but the US just ignored it and grabbed him anyway.

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    Ecuador's Moreno warns Assange not to interfere in politics (May 26, 2017)

    Cochasqui (Ecuador) (AFP) - Ecuador's new president Lenin Moreno warned Julian Assange Thursday not to interfere in the politics of the South American country, whose embassy the WikiLeaks founder has lived in for the past five years.

    The election victory of Moreno, who took office Wednesday, came as a relief for Assange after the socialist president's conservative rival had vowed to kick him out of Ecuador's London embassy.

    On the night of the election in April, Assange took to Twitter to celebrate Lasso's loss.

    But Moreno -- speaking at a ceremony at Cochasqui archeological site in the northern Andes Thursday -- "respectfully" asked the Australian "not to interfere in Ecuadorian politics, nor in the politics of its allies."

    "His status does not allow him to talk about the politics of any country, let alone ours," he said.

    It was Moreno's second warning for Assange in as many months, after he urged him following his election victory to "not meddle" in Ecuador's affairs.

    The admonishment comes a week after Swedish prosecutors dropped a seven-year rape allegation against Assange and withdrew the European arrest warrant that had prompted his flight to the embassy and an appeal for asylum.

    Former Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa said earlier this week that his country had "done its duty" by granting him asylum in 2012.

    Moreno added on Thursday that his country "will ensure" that Britain "allows the transfer of Mr Assange to Ecuador or to the country in which he wishes to reside."

    However, British police have said they still intend to arrest Assange if he leaves the London embassy after he violated the terms of his probation in Britain in 2012 when he took refuge in the diplomatic mission.

    The WikiLeaks founder has always proclaimed his innocence of the charges, saying his extradition to Sweden would have led to his transfer to the United States, where he could be tried for publishing a huge store of confidential military and diplomatic documents.

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    Response from Julian Assange (Twitter, May 26, 2017)

    Talk that I have some kind of legally mandated gag are incorrect. Three laws apply.

    The 1951 Convention on Refugees under which Ecuador granted me refugee status. There are no limitations whatsoever.

    The Ecuadorian constitution which grants refugees "the full exercise of their rights".


    The 1954 Caracas Convention which prevents "interference" (e.g plotting a coup) in the internal politics of the UK and only the UK.


    I am very sympathetic to the political and geopolitical pressures that every government faces. But the law only deals with the UK.

    Ecuadorians can be confident that if WikiLeaks receives evidence of corruption in Ecuador it will be published.

    In any instance where there is a genuine legal barrier to me being the publisher I will recuse myself and my replacement will publish.

    Finally, I note that WikiLeaks publishes from EU, etc not Ecuador. If CIA et al have a problem with press freedoms take it up with the EU.

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    Interview with John Pilger on Assange's detention, WBAI Radio - http://nuarchive.wbai.org/mp3/wbai_1...andyCrelof.mp3
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