WikiLeaks says Julian Assange is being spied on in the Ecuadorean embassy
Group's editor-in-chief Kristinn Hrafnsson says he met members of a group demanding payment for the surveillance material
London — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been the subject of a sophisticated spying operation in the Ecuadorean embassy where he has been holed up since 2012, the group said on Wednesday. WikiLeaks said video, audio, photographs, copies of private legal documents and even a medical report turned up in Spain, where a group threatened to start publishing unless they were paid €3m. Kristinn Hrafnsson, WikiLeaks editor-in-chief, said he met members of the group who were selling the material and that Spanish police are now investigating the case. “Extortion is a very serious matter but of much greater concern to me is this material-gathering and spying on Julian Assange by the [Ecuadorean] government … against an individual who was granted asylum,” Hrafnsson told reporters. The Ecuadorean embassy in London did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Assange’s relations with his hosts have chilled since Ecuador accused him of leaking information about President Lenin Moreno...
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