Ecuador mulls Assange transfer to Sweden

22 Sep 2012, 12:23 pm   -   Source: AP
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Ecuador is considering asking Britain to authorise the transfer of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to its embassy in Sweden. (SBS)

Ecuador is considering asking Britain to authorise the transfer of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to its embassy in Sweden. (SBS)

Ecuador is considering asking Britain to authorise the transfer of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to its embassy in Sweden so he can respond to sex crimes allegations there.

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Ecuador is considering asking Britain to authorise the transfer of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to its embassy in Sweden so he can respond to sex crimes allegations there.

Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino told reporters on Friday there were several possibilities to resolve the stand-off with Britain over Assange, including "that his statement be taken in our embassy in London or that Ecuador get authorisation to transfer him, if necessary, to our embassy in Sweden so that the case can proceed there with the protection of Ecuador and meeting the needs of Swedish justice".

There was no immediate reaction from British officials.

Assange has been holed up in Ecuador's embassy in London since June 19, seeking to avoid extradition to Sweden for questioning over sex crimes allegations.

Assange claims the Swedish sex case is part of a wider plot to make him stand trial in the United States over his work with WikiLeaks, which has published large troves of secret US documents. Sweden and Washington have rejected the claim.

Ecuador granted the WikiLeaks founder political asylum on Aug. 15, but British authorities will arrest him if he steps foot outside the diplomatic mission.


 

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Journalists on trial

Ajax - from Frankston melbourne , 8 months ago

Bush passed Legislation that enables possible terrorists to be jailed without trial.Two journalists have been arrested and held in America since then under this legislation only to be released a year later no trial.Assange who has been a member of the journalists union for many years is prime meat to be sanwhiched this way and British authorities have clearily no interest what happens if he is captured, the wider lesson is no journalist is ever going to be safe within existing American democracy

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