President Lenín Moreno of Ecuador told reporters on Tuesday that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has "repeatedly violated" the terms of his asylum.
Assange has lived in Ecuador's London embassy since mid-2012, and has been told he "cannot lie, or much less hack, into private accounts or private phones," Moreno said. Assange is also prohibited from intervening "in the politics of countries."
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