Julian Assange dragged from Ecuador's embassy in London and arrested

Julian Assange was arrested today in London and removed from Ecuador's embassy there. Assange, the founder of Wikileaks, remained in the embassy for six years to avoid a sexual assault case in Sweden that was eventually closed, but still faced arrest for skipping court dates. He was taken from the embassyvideo shows a cuffed Assange dragged by several men through its doorsafter his asylum was reportedly withdrawn and officers invited in.

WATCH: Julian Assange gets arrested by Met Police after being expelled from the Ecuadorean embassy https://t.co/SqoTLtsSQV pic.twitter.com/2qvXzq7cD2

— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) April 11, 2019

Ecuador's president Lenin Moreno said it withdrew Mr Assange's asylum after his repeated violations of international conventions.

But Wikileaks tweeted that Ecuador had acted illegally in terminating Mr Assange's political asylum "in violation of international law".

Home Secretary Sajid Javid tweeted: "I can confirm Julian Assange is now in police custody and rightly facing justice in the UK.

He also faces charges in the U.S. related to Wikileaks' publication of documents and videos showing U.S. war crimes, misconduct and a plethora of other embarrassing and classified information. Wikileaks often maintianed that Assange's detention and asylum ultimately concerned plans to extradite him to America.

Nearly 7yrs after entering the Ecuadorean Embassy, I can confirm Julian Assange is now in police custody and rightly facing justice in the UK. I would like to thank Ecuador for its cooperation & @metpoliceuk for its professionalism. No one is above the law

— Sajid Javid (@sajidjavid) April 11, 2019

Important background for journalists covering the arrest of Julian #Assange by Ecuador: the United Nations formally ruled his detention to be arbitrary, a violation of human rights.