“The hand of ‘democracy’ squeezes the throat of freedom,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova wrote on Facebook.
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s official spokesperson Dmitry Peskov has responded to the Thursday arrest of Julian Assange in London after the WikiLeaks founder was stripped of asylum by the Ecuadorian embassy.
"We need to use all international opportunities to protect the person who tried to expose the truth and bring information to the public that some entities carefully concealed,” said Alexey Chepa, deputy chairman of the International Affairs Committee of the State Duma, the lower house of Russia’s Federal Assembly, according to The Moscow Times.
Assange, who first sought asylum in the embassy of Ecuador back in 2012, had his protection officially terminated by the country on Thursday. He first entered the diplomatic facility to avoid being extradited to Sweden to face sexual assault charges leveled by two women. Swedish investigators eventually interviewed him in the embassy and dropped the charges. Assange and his supporters have claimed that the charges were a conspiracy to get him extradited to the U.S.
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