FILE - In this Feb. 5, 2016 file photo, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange walks onto the balcony of the Ecuadorean Embassy in London. An Ecuadorean judge ruled Monday, Oct. 29, 2018 against a request by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to loosen up strict new requirements he says are meant to push him out of the London embassy where he lives. (Kirsty Wigglesworth, File/Associated Press)QUITO, Ecuador — A judge ruled against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Monday, rejecting his request to loosen new requirements that he says are meant to push him into leaving his asylum in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. Relations between Assange and Ecuador have grown increasingly prickly as the years have dragged on with no solution in sight. Ecuador granted Assange asylum in the embassy in 2012 as he tried to avoid extradition to Sweden.

Source: Washington Post October 29, 2018 20:46 UTC