Assange's Ecuadorian Citizenship not yet Suspended

Update from #Assange's Ecuadorian lawyer Aitor Martinez on the legality of his arrest & expulsion from the London embassy. He tweeted:
"The court that judges the suspension of Julian Assange's Ecuadorian citizenship on the day he was handed over to the UK has communicated the 3 judges did not reach an agreement. Clearly the Constitution prevented Lenin [Moreno, former President of Ecuador] to hand over an Ecuadorian citizen."

In May 2023 Carlos Poveda, his other lawyer in Ecuador, told Consortium News:
"British police personnel entered absolutely without authorization. I want to emphasize that Assange is still Ecuadorian. That is another case we have in Ecuador. They wanted to annul the nationality and so far we are defending it, defending him, who is still Ecuadorian. His nationality has not been withdrawn."

In 2019 the ombudsman of Ecuador declared the expulsion of Julian Assange from the London embassy illegal and as a "de facto extradition" from Ecuador to the UK, primarily in breach of Article 79 of Ecuador's Constitution which excludes the possibility of extraditing any Ecuadorian citizen. There is a due process that must be followed to terminate citizenship, and opportunity for appeal, which Assange was never given.

The person whose citizenship is going to be taken off them - and very often it's to do with not filling in documents correctly, not giving the correct information, fraud - Julian has not been challenged on any of these grounds. It was an immediate decision, but it would appear that these laws have been broken:

The right to nationality, Article 6. The right to asylum, Article 41. The principle of non refoulement (not handing back asylees to those who threaten their lives), Article 66 and Article 14. All guarantees of due process have been limited, Article 77 in particular, provided for in the Constitution of the Republic, the Human Mobility Law and in international human rights instruments.