The foreign ministry of Ecuador announced that Ecuador would be
granting Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange a political asylum on 16
August 2012.
Assange shot to fame in the year 2010 after he leaked a number of US
diplomatic cables and videos regarding the war in Iraq and Afghanistan
through Wikileaks. Following the incident, USA and other countries whose
secrets were divulged jumped into considerable action. Assange and his
team argue that the alleged sex crimes allegations and these accusations
are untrue and falsely built up.
He best known as the editor-in-chief and co-founder of WikiLeaks, a
media website which has published information from whistleblowers.
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