After Nearly Seven Years Julian Assange Arrested And Taken Out The Ecuadorian Embassy

Julian Assange was removed from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London after making the building his safe haven for seven years. The Ecuadorian government revoked his asylum status, which allowed the UK government to arrest him for skipping bail on an extradition charge. The US followed up with their own charges of alleged conspiracy with Chelsea Manning “to break a password to a classified US government computer”. Assange had some high profile visitors over the years, including Pamela Anderson and Noam Chomsky, as well as a feline companion affectionately known as “embassy cat”.