Independent UN rights experts on Thursday said the arrest of Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange by police in the United Kingdom after the Ecuadorian Government decided to stop granting him asylum in their London embassy, exposed him to “ the risk of serious human rights violations ” if extradited to the United States. These views are consistent with a series of actions and statements by the UN which has sided with Assange throughout this threat of prosecution and his nearly seven years as a refuge in the Ecuadorian embassy. Special Rapporteur on extra-judicial executions, Agnes Callamard, said “ expelling Assange from the Embassy ” and allowing his arrest, it had taken Mr. Assange “ one step closer to extradition. ” She added that the UK had now arbitrarily-detained the controversial anti-secrecy journalist and campaigner, “ possibly endangering his life. ” The UN independent expert on the right to privacy, Joe Cannataci, issued a statement following