The Icelandic investigative journalist and his former representative WikiLeaks Kristinn Hrafnsson will become the new editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks, replacing Julian Assange.
The announcement was made late on Wednesday in a statement issued through him official account of WikiLeaks on Twitter.
Assange spent six months in seclusion in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where he has lived since 2012, when the Ecuadorian government cut off his Internet connection.network and suspended his right to receive visitors from March 28.
The founder of WikiLeaks fled to the embassy to avoid extradition to Sweden. At the time, he was accused of sexual assault. Assange has since remained at the embassy as there is still a risk of arrest by British authorities for breaching conditions of his original bail by resorting to the Ecuadorian embassy (where he found asylum).
Kristinn Hrafnsson has been for many years with Assange and a very respected journalist in his home country in Iceland, having obtained too many awards for his work.
He met with the WikiLeaks founder around 2009 and his immediate involvement as a website representative began the following year when Assange was arrested at the end of 2010 for sexual assault in Sweden. Hrafnsson remained in the same position until 2016.
During the duration during this period, Hrafnsson was reportedly the only person Assange allowed to access sensitive information received by the website.
From his first public statement, Kristinn Hrafnsson sought to raise public awareness of Assange's situation.
"I condemn the treatment of Julian Assange in my new role, but welcome the opportunity to ensure that important work continues in the WikiLeaks ideals."
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