Tag: WikiLeaks

• Tuesday, July 16th 2013 - 23:10 UTC

  Following the Snowden incident, Russia’s secret service orders typewriters

  

  The Kremlin's security agency is buying up typewriters to avoid damaging leaks in a move said to be motivated by the recent US surveillance scandals. Russia's Federal Protective Service, the KGB's successor in charge of protecting President Vladimir Putin and his officials, placed an order for 20 typewriters, according to the state procurement website.

• Thursday, July 11th 2013 - 07:22 UTC

  Falklands: Ambassador Castro renews sovereignty claims and blasts the US for spying

  

  Argentine ambassador to the United Kingdom Alicia Castro renewed Argentina’s sovereignty claims over the Falkland Islands and put the Edward Snowden spy row on London’s table: “We are free nations that neither need nor want to be spied on,” Castro warned.

• Friday, July 5th 2013 - 07:07 UTC

  Ecuador asks UK to help investigate spying at its embassy in London

  

  Ecuador has asked the UK to help an investigation over alleged spying at its embassy in London where Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is living. Ecuador named a British company it claimed planted a listening device in their ambassador's office but this was denied.

• Monday, June 17th 2013 - 19:25 UTC

  Assange prepared to remain in Ecuadorean embassy in London another five years

  

  Ecuador will continue to grant WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange asylum at its London embassy, the foreign minister said on Monday after failing to reach a solution to the case with Britain.

• Friday, February 15th 2013 - 05:51 UTC

  Clear victory for Correa will have him in frontline to succeed Chavez

  

  Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa, one of Latin America's most outspoken leaders is almost certain to win re-election on Sunday by an ample margin catapulting him as the most probable successor of Venezuela’s ailing Hugo Chavez and the populist movement in Latinamerica.

• Tuesday, November 13th 2012 - 03:52 UTC

  Ecuador’s President Correa runs for a third consecutive term next February

  

  Ecuador President Rafael Correa officially announced this weekend that he would run for a third term in February elections -- a contest in which he is expected to be the runaway favourite.

• Tuesday, October 9th 2012 - 04:02 UTC

  Wikileaks Assange bail guarantors ordered to pay £ 93.000

  

  Nine people who put up bail for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, including two members of the British aristocracy and a Nobel Prize winner, were ordered to pay 93,000 pounds on Monday after Assange took refuge in Ecuador's embassy.

• Monday, September 24th 2012 - 02:39 UTC

  Assange praises Argentina for facing UK, but criticizes the data-gathering system

  

  Wikileaks founder Julian Assange currently holed in the Ecuadorean embassy in London said that “Argentina's support is very important, because Argentina has experience with facing the UK”.

• Saturday, September 22nd 2012 - 05:24 UTC

  Ecuador suggests transferring Assange to its embassy in Sweden so he can be questioned

  

  Ecuador proposed on Friday transferring Wikileaks founder Julian Assange from its embassy in London where he has taken refuge to that in Sweden where he is a suspect of sex related crimes. However this depends on Britain and there has been no official reaction to the proposal.

• Friday, August 31st 2012 - 00:42 UTC

  Ecuadorian columnist sentenced to jail and million dollars fine granted asylum in the US

  

  A newspaper columnist who fled Ecuador after he was sentenced to jail and ordered to pay millions of dollars in a libel case pushed by President Rafael Correa has been granted asylum in the United States, his lawyer said on Thursday.