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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was stripped of his Ecuadorian citizenship after the country’s court found that his naturalisation process was full of irregularities, reported Bloomberg on Wednesday. Naturalisation is a process by which a non-citizen can obtain citizenship in a country.
Assange, who is currently lodged in a London prison, had been living in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London since June 2012 after he sought asylum to avoid being extradited to Sweden in connection with sexual assault allegations against him that were later dropped.
In 2018, Assange was granted the citizenship of Ecuador in an attempt by then Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno to get the journalist out of its embassy in London, reported AP. However, a year later, Ecuador withdrew his asylum citing “repeated violations to international conventions and daily-life protocols”. He was then arrested by the United Kingdom Police and sent to jail.
The journalist has been indicted by the United States prosecutors, who want him extradited to the country, on espionage charges as well as for computer misuse over WikiLeaks’ publication. In 2010, WikiLeaks had released a tranche of military and diplomatic documents, including those pertaining to the US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The charges carry a maximum sentence of 175 years in prison.
In January, a UK court had ruled that Assange cannot…