{"id":334147,"date":"2014-08-06T01:32:45","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T05:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=334147"},"modified":"2021-07-19T11:31:39","modified_gmt":"2021-07-19T15:31:39","slug":"assange-stakeout-has-cost-nearly-12-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sk\/assange-stakeout-has-cost-nearly-12-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Assange stakeout has cost nearly $12 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>RAEL&#8217;S COMMENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><strong><span style=\"color: #008080\"> A waste of money which would have been better used to help homeless and starving people. <\/span><\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong><!--more--><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__summary summary \">\n<p>Assange has been detained without charge for 1,337 days \u2013 and 777 of those days have been spent in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, according to the latest WikiLeaks statement.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the price tag for guarding Assange hit over seven million British pounds (US$11.8 million) early on Wednesday, according to govwaste.co.uk counter.<\/p>\n<p>Officers have been staking out the embassy around the clock since June 2012, with the cost to the London taxpayers surpassing $15,000 per day.<\/p>\n<p>At any time of the day or night, there are three officers stationed outside the embassy, ready to arrest Assange if he tries to leave.<\/p>\n<p>The bill is likely to keep climbing; Ecuadorian authorities have said Assange is welcome to stay in the embassy for as long as required.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/178276-assange-police-cost-embassy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/rael.maitreya\/posts\/10152629952404345\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAEL&#8217;S COMMENT: A waste of money which would have been better used to help homeless and starving people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":334149,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-334147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}