Ecuador has granted citizenship to Julian Assange. Ecuador Foreign Minister Maria Fernanda Espinosa announced this today. <br/><br/>Espinosa informed that Assange, an Australian, became an Ecuadoran citizen on December 12. <br/><br/>The Wikileaks founder has been living in the Ecuadorian embassy in London since 2012, when he was faced with extradition to Sweden for allegedly sexually assaulting two women. <br/>'<br/>Ecuador has also sought to give Assange diplomatic status, but Britain has rejected the request. <br/><br/>Diplomatic immunity would allow him to leave the embassy without the possibility of being arrested for jumping bail in 2012.<br/><br/><br/><br/>