{"id":43585,"date":"2018-01-11T23:42:43","date_gmt":"2018-01-11T18:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=43585"},"modified":"2018-01-11T23:42:43","modified_gmt":"2018-01-11T18:42:43","slug":"wikileaks-founder-julian-assange-was-naturalized-as-an-ecuadorean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=43585","title":{"rendered":"WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was \u201cnaturalized\u201d as an Ecuadorean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>QUITO, Jan 11 (TNS):<\/strong>\u00a0 WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was \u201cnaturalized\u201d as an Ecuadorean on Dec. 12, at his request, Ecuador\u2019s foreign minister said on Thursday, adding that she was seeking a \u201cdignified\u201d solution to his situation with Britain.<\/p>\n<p>Britain said earlier on Thursday it had refused a request by Ecuador for Assange to be given diplomatic status, a spokesman for Britain\u2019s Foreign Office said.<\/p>\n<p>Assange has been holed up for more than five years in the Ecuadorean embassy in London where he was granted asylum in 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden over rape allegations.<\/p>\n<p>Ecuador\u2019s foreign minister Maria Fernanda Espinosa confirmed Assange\u2019s citizenship request at a press conference in Quito. She said she feared for threats to Assange\u2019s life coming from third party states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>QUITO, Jan 11 (TNS):\u00a0 WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was \u201cnaturalized\u201d as an Ecuadorean on Dec. 12, at his request, Ecuador\u2019s foreign minister said on Thursday, adding that she was seeking a \u201cdignified\u201d solution to his situation with Britain. Britain said earlier on Thursday it had refused a request by Ecuador for Assange to be given [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43587,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,2095],"tags":[932,2096],"class_list":["post-43585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-quito","tag-international","tag-quito"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43588,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43585\/revisions\/43588"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/43587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}