That’s part of what prosecutors and judges are going to have to define.” Soria does not deny that Bini visited Assange at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. But Soria denies Bini was a WikiLeaks collaborator and calls the charges against his client baseless. Assange had lived at the cramped London embassy since 2012, but relations soured after Moreno took office, then lifted asylum and evicted Assange last week. “If Ecuador can do this, so can others.” “I’m confident it will be obvious that there’s no substance to this case, and that it will collapse into nothing,” he said. Bini’s parents arrived in Quito from Sweden earlier in the week and Soria said they have visited him in jail.

Source: thestar April 18, 2019 14:38 UTC