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US reportedly looking to prosecute Assange amid increased prospects of bringing him to the US

The Detention Department is getting ready to prosecute Julian Assange as the WikiLeaks be wrecked’s relationship with Ecuador deteriorates, The Wall Street Journal announced citing people in Washington familiar with the matter.

Ecuador furnished Assange political asylum in 2012. He has since been living in the woods’s embassy in London.

But last month, Ecuador’s foreign minister broke the country no longer plans to intervene on Assange’s behalf in discussions with the British supervision about his asylum status.

The Journal reported that U.S. prosecutors include weighed charges against Assange as the prospect of getting Ecuadorean officials to reveal him over seem more likely.

In October, Assange sued Ecuador for “infringing his rights,” alleging that authorities have tried to “summarily cut off” his access to the disinvolved world.

Read the full report in The Wall Street Journal.

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