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Message: <blockquote data-quote="d12345" data-source="post: 24366197" data-attributes="member: 517932">Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange has been arrested at the Ecuadorian embassy in London.Mr Assange took refuge in the embassy in 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden over a sexual assault case that has since been dropped.At Westminster Magistrates' Court on Thursday he was found guilty of failing to surrender to the court.He also faces US federal conspiracy charges related to one of the largest ever leaks of government secrets.Ecuador's president said it withdrew his asylum after repeated violations of international conventions.But Wikileaks tweeted that Ecuador had acted illegally in terminating Mr Assange's political asylum "in violation of international law".</blockquote>

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