Assange told police he would not leave the embassy of Ecuador

    Julian Assange has been at the London Embassy of Ecuador for more than a week, where he sought political asylum on June 19 . The story took a dangerous turn when representatives of the British police said that the extradition law took precedence over the law on political refugees, so a fugitive "criminal" would be arrested as soon as he left the embassy, ​​even if he already received political refugee status and head to the airport.

    Yesterday, the police sent another summons to Julian Assange, but he refused to go to the police department for extradition.

    According to British lawyers, in such a situation, the founder of Wikileaks technically has only one option to avoid being arrested: to become the representative of Ecuador at the UN. In this case, he will receive diplomatic immunity. At the same time, Assange’s lawyers strongly disagree that the extradition law has priority over the Declaration of Human Rights.

    On June 23, Ana Alban, Ecuador’s Ambassador to London, was summoned to Quito for consultations, while Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa spoke in support of Assange. It remains to solve only one question: how to leave the territory of Great Britain imperceptibly from the police, without violating the law.

    In the event of extradition, Julian Assange will be transferred to Sweden and immediately imprisoned. He will have little chance of being released on bail, as the Swedish court will probably take into account his current behavior.

    At the same time, Ecuadorian embassies in the USA and Great Britain received more than 10 thousand emails asking for asylum to the founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange. A message about this was published on the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ecuador. The American human rights organization Just Foreign Policy sent a message in support of Assange personally to President Rafael Correa, the appeal said that attempts to arrest Assange are politically motivated for his journalistic activities as part of the Wikileaks project. Among the signatories of the appeal are directors Michael Moore and Oliver Stone, as well as the philosopher Noam Chomsky.

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