Ecuador calls claims it will revoke Julian Assange's asylum 'fake news' Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is showing “ingratitude and disrespect” to the country that has provided him refuge since 2012, the Ecuadorian foreign ministry said late Friday. That rebuke was delivered as Ecuador denies coordinating with the United Kingdom about the arrest of Assange, who has been sheltering in the Ecuadorian embassy in London for seven years, and said it will not revoke his asylum. "The Ministry of Foreign Relations and Human Mobility categorically rejects the fake news which had been circulated over these last few days on social media — many of which are being disseminated by an organization linked to Mr. Julian Assange, concerning an imminent termination of the diplomatic asylum which has been extended to him" since 2012, according to a statement from the ministry. I found this on 8chan.