Julian Assange has been pictured for the first time in months being whisked from court in a prison van after claiming his Ecuadorian embassy room had been bugged by security forces. Edward Fitzgerald QC, representing the Australian, yesterday told Westminster Magistrates' Court material would be submitted relating to alleged 'bugging of the conversations with his lawyers in the Ecuadorian embassy'. Mr Fitzgerald told the court yesterday: 'There is a bundle with the revelations in the Spanish proceedings in regards to the ongoing evidence of the bugging of the conversations with his lawyers in the Ecuadorian embassy.' His full extradition hearing will be heard at Belmarsh Magistrates' Court on February 24 next year and will last up to four weeks. There will be a brief administrative hearing back at Westminster Magistrates' Court on 18 January.

Source: Daily Mail December 20, 2019 12:17 UTC