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Re:Assange Indicted Under Espionage Act, Raising First Amend... by eridius on Thursday May 23, 2019 @07:49PM (#19997156)
Ecuador didn't exactly "[go] back on its promise of asylum". Assange violated the terms of his asylum. Whether that's justification for handing him over to the U.S. is a separate argument, but Ecuador was justified in terminating the asylum.
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Re:Assange Indicted Under Espionage Act, Raising First Amend... by JauntyHatAngle on Thursday May 23, 2019 @08:02PM (#19997234)
Perhaps, but it really had nothing to do with it by best accounts.

Change of Government, new person is power was always anti-assange. Government changed, Assange out.

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Re:Assange Indicted Under Espionage Act, Raising First Amend... by totalZero on Saturday May 25, 2019 @06:50PM (#20011991) 

  Assange violated the terms of his asylum.
This is only true if you take what the government of Ecuador has claimed at face value.

The reality is that Latin American governments often make deceptive and untrue claims to support activities that benefit them.

In this case, Ecuador made several unsubstantiated claims ostensibly designed to humiliate Assange, which fall short of any reasonable attempt to prove that Assange violated the terms of his asylum.

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