Julian Assange – champion of press freedom and government openness – remains holed up in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, but what awaits him if he ever makes it to Ecuador?
Amos Roberts reports from there on tonight's Dateline at 9.30pm on SBS ONE, and finds President Correa is on a crusade against the media and is seen as anything but a supporter of free speech.
He regularly unleashes a tirade of abuse against journalists, and the government is allowed by law to interrupt broadcasts with any 'corrections' it wishes to make.
Amos also meets Aliaksandr Barankov, who was granted asylum in Ecuador after uncovering corruption in his native Belarus.
But despite fearing for his life, he was threatened with extradition to Belarus and its questionable human rights… all just weeks before Assange was granted asylum.
Also on tonight's program, Yaara Bou Melhem catches up with his Australian lawyer Jennifer Robinson in Stockholm.
She's critical of what she describes as the lack of action by the Australian Government, and she gives her thoughts on where the controversy has left Sweden's reputation on human rights.
So with five countries now drawn into the debate over Assange's future, what options does he now have?
