British police stationed outside Ecuador embassy following WikiLeaks tweets

Source: The Hill

British police are prepared to arrest Wikileaks founder Julian Assange if he is ousted from his sanctuary at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London.

Officers with London's metropolitan police department were stationed outside the embassy Friday morning following messages from Wikileaks claiming that Assange would be moved out of the facility within hours or days, The Associated Press reported.

Police told reporters that Assange faces a warrant for his arrest in the U.K., which he has been avoiding for years by living in the Ecuadorian diplomatic compound, and officers said that they are “obliged to execute that warrant should he leave the Embassy," according to the AP.

The news comes hours after a Twitter account representing Wikileaks cited a high-level source in the Ecuadorian government who said that Ecuador's President Lenín Moreno, himself at the center of a corruption scandal triggered by leaked documents, was seeking to oust Assange from the embassy.

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