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| Wikileaks' Assange Sees Up To A Year In Ecuador Embassy |
| 2012-09-01 |
| Julian Assange expects to wait six months to a year for a deal to free him from Ecuador's embassy in London, and hopes Sweden will drop its case against him, the WikiLeaks' founder said in an interview broadcast on Thursday. Â The former computer hacker has been holed up at the embassy for more than two months, seeking to avoid being sent to Sweden for questioning over rape and sexual assault allegations - and triggering a diplomatic spat with Britannia. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #5 No, he's not on Ecuadorian soil... that's an old myth about embassies. He's on British soil, just that British authorities may not enter without consent of the mission chief. Any offense committed inside the embassy can and will be tried by British authorities if they can arrest him. He has no immunity. Btw the Ecuadorian ambassador to the UK is a woman. |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2012-09-01 22:08 |
| #4 Frank, that raises an interesting question - if a person who has been granted asylum in an embassy commits a crime in the embassy - can he be charged with that crime? If so, how can he be prosecuted? Since he is on Ecuadorean "soil" he would have to be tried by a judge from Ecuador. |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2012-09-01 15:55 |
| #3 be nice if a female embassy staffer or two got to learn that "no" means "yes" to him |
| Posted by: Frank G 2012-09-01 12:02 |
| #2 Be nice if his stay lasts longer than the potential sentence he faces in Sweden. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2012-09-01 09:45 |
| #1 I'll bet he's there longer than that... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2012-09-01 00:22 |