Ecuador to make decision on Assange after Olympics – foreign minister

Published time: July 25, 2012 20:34
Edited time: July 26, 2012 00:34
AFP Photo / Carl Court

Ecuadorian foreign minister Ricardo Patino says the decision on whether to grant Julian Assange political asylum will be made after the Olympic Games and will not affect the Ecuador’s relations with Britain.

­“We will make a decision that doesn't affect our relationship with Great Britain,” Patino noted. “It might be a decision that's different from the position of the government of Great Britain, but we will be prudent so as not to affect the situation over there right now.

Patino said his country would invite British and Swedish officials to come over to Ecuador to discuss the issue. The Wikileaks founder is currently staying at Ecuador’s embassy in London and celebrated his 41st birthday on July 3.   

Julian Assange took refuge in the embassy on June 19. He had previously spent 18 months under house arrest trying to appeal a court ruling to extradite him to Sweden, where he is wanted for questioning on suspicion of sexual misconduct.

Assange believes that he may subsequently be re-extradited to the United States to face charges of espionage, as Wikileaks published thousands of classified documents.  

On Tuesday, Wikileaks announced it had hired Spanish former judge Balthazar Garzon to lead a legal team defending the whistleblower website and Assange.

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Hitomi (unregistered) 09.10.2012 07:05

USA wants Julian Assange head, they treat him like a terrorist, but the nebumr one terrorist in the world, which is called MONSANTO (GMO poisoning food to poison all peoples around the world) and which is from the USA is still free!!!!! instead of harrassing a man who post true news cables on the web, USA and Europe Gov's must arrest big terrorists like Monsdanto (and/or poisoning vaccines factory) as the charges against such terrorists like MONSANTO are the following:Crime against humanity,Poisoning peoples,Poisoning hearth and biodiversity.USA and Erurope suppose to be develloped and human right countries>>> big lies, because they are popisoning us and our children with their Genetic Modified Foods, as many scientists said before they get harrassed or murdered to shut them up .Same thing for the pollution, USA and Europe pretends to find solutions, but it is a lie of big petrol compagnies>>> why don't they builds Hydrogen cars ( as invented by MR Paul Pantone, and then he get incarcerated // or magnetic powered cars engines like the Bedini', minato' or perendev' engine, again someone which is (was) called MR Troy Reed has built such cars, and want to sell them, but he got killed .. hem hemmm! killed by who?, I let you think by yourself: Gov's and Petrol companies),(find infos about these issues on youtube.com , care2.com , wiibeez.com , gmfreeireland.org .. ..So why not to arrest the real terrorists, the real powerfull firms and persons which put our life in danger, and kill slowly (rapidly i must say) the earth instead of harrassing with fake cases peoples like Julian Assange.Please share this post or copy and paste it for peoples knowledge and information about what's happening! before this post get deleted by ..(I let you devine)

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Ture Sjolander (unregistered) 16.08.2012 10:05

This ongoing Leak is the biggest leak of all the leaks Wikileaks have caused up today.
People who really understand media&politics understand this!

US, Sweden, Australia and UK are self leaking  like a perpetum mobile Tsunami.
No matter what you  intend to do with Assange,  now or later,  you all have have lost the plot.
The whole world can see all of you and your act, you are not invisable!
This whole story display the utmost darkest matter within a clan of modern Gestapos.




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Margo (unregistered) 26.07.2012 11:10

@ vikram - - no one said that JulienAssange is the new Jesus, what was said was that the most famous Christian icon was a whistleblower and was persecuted for telling the truth. But if the cap fits Vikram, wear it.  Another point is that Julian Assange has never been charged with any crime whatsoever, and  at this day he is an innocent man being persecuted for being a whistleblower and telling the truth. 

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