Friday 17 August 2012

Julian Assange asylum in embassy of Ecuador


Ecuador is fighting over Assange on Latin American solidarity

London - Ecuador has turned on in case of stubborn in its London embassy Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange, the Organization of American States (OAS). As the OAS announced on Friday, Quito requested for Thursday a meeting of foreign ministers. British policemen guarded the outputs of the embassy to immediately arrest Assange, he should leave the building in order to go to the asylum granted by Ecuador.
The Ecuadorian OAS Ambassador María Isabel Salvador said that at the request of the government of their country should the foreign ministers of the Organization on the "explicit threats" of the British government advised against Assange. Ecuador had Assange, on the 19th Fled June in the London embassy, ​​was to escape extradition to Sweden on Thursday granted diplomatic asylum. However, the UK will allow Assange to leave under any circumstances.

Assange to be questioned in Sweden on allegations of molesting two women raped or sexually. Foreign Secretary William Hague had on Thursday reaffirmed his country's determination, Assange extradited to Sweden.
Because of the controversy turned Ecuador also includes the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) and scheduled for Sunday at a meeting of foreign ministers. At the weekend also comes the Latin American ALBA alliance of nations together to work on Assange. Assange's legal adviser Baltasar Garzón announced erstreiten to the departure of his client to Ecuador before the International Court of Justice if necessary. According to the Ecuadorian president, Rafael Correa, Assange will be possible to stay "indefinitely" in the London embassy.
In Sweden, met a representative of the Foreign Ministry of the Ecuadorian ambassador to inform him about the "basic principles of the Swedish legal system." Foreign Minister Carl Bildt has previously rejected claims Assange in Sweden were not granted any rights to his defense.
The Wikileaks has the publication of hundreds of thousands of confidential U.S. diplomat end Peschen and explosive documents on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan drawn the ire of Washington and NATO itself. The young U.S. soldier Bradley Manning, who allegedly passed the dispatches to Wikileaks must currently being summoned before a U.S. military tribunal. Assange fears being extradited to the U.S. from Sweden and persecuted for espionage.

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