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Olivia Tobin

Julian Assange news live: updates as WikiLeaks founder 'set to be released within hours'

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will be expelled from the Ecuadorian embassy "within hours to days", according to sources.

A "high level source", quoted by WikiLeaks, revealed the Australian could leave the central London embassy as early as Friday morning.

He has been in Ecuador's London embassy since 2012 after he sought refuge after a British judge ruled he should be extradited to Sweden to face sexual assault allegations.

The case was dropped by Sweden in 2017, but the 47-year-old remains in the embassy.

A member of staff inside the six-storey building declined to speak about the claims when asked over the intercom shortly before 7.30am.

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