Adelaide: A senior Swedish judge has described the sex crime allegations in his country against fugitive WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange as "a mess." In a speech at Australia's University of Adelaide on Wednesday, Justice Stefan Lindskog, chairman of the Supreme Court of Sweden, listed legal obstacles to extraditing the 41-year-old Australian to the United States to face prosecution for exposing thousands of classified documents.
Assange has taken asylum in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London since last June to avoid extradition to Sweden on sex crime allegations. He is wanted in Sweden for questioning over criminal allegations made by two women.
But Assange says the Swedish allegations are a ploy to get him the Sweden from where he would be extradited to the United States.
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11:28 PM, Apr 03, 2013
A landslide second re-election secured, President Rafael Correa immediately vowed to deepen the "citizen's revolution" that has lifted tens of thousands of Ecuadoreans out of poverty as he expanded the welfare state. "In this revolution the citizens are in charge, not capital," the leftist US-trained economist said after winning 56.9 percent of the vote on Sunday against 23.8 percent for his closest challenger, longtime banker Guillermo Lasso. ...
03:23 PM, Feb 18, 2013
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, currently holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, will contest September poll for the Australian Senate as the lead candidate of his newly formed WikiLeaks Party. The 41-year-old hacker-turned activist's application for electoral enrollment in the state was received by Australian Electoral Commission here, the 'The Age' reported. ...
11:31 AM, Feb 13, 2013
Portugal captain Cristiano Ronaldo is confident he will take part in Wednesday's friendly against Ecuador despite feeling a certain 'overload'. ...
05:28 PM, Feb 05, 2013
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who is holed up in the Ecuadorean embassy in London, will run for a Senate seat in Australia this year and his mother feels he would offer a good break from the 'US lackeys' in politics. ...
10:43 AM, Jan 31, 2013
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said on Thursday the "door was open" for talks to end his refuge in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where he holed up six months ago to avoid extradition to Sweden for alleged sex crimes. ...
06:09 AM, Dec 21, 2012
Quito: The demand of dozens of citizens has been denied in the Ecuadorean city of Guayaquil: There will be no jackass running for the legislature. At least 40 people paraded their candidate through the city's streets to the electoral council offices. Mr Burro even wore a tie. Officials, however, refused to even let them in the door on Thursday, November 15, even though backers had dummied up a mock voter...
09:38 AM, Nov 24, 2012
United Nations: Ecuador says it has invited WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to address a meeting on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly via a videolink from his refuge in the country's London embassy. Assange will speak on Wednesday alongside Ecuador's foreign minister Ricardo Patino at a specially convened event to discuss his asylum case. The Australian activist is seeking to avoid extradition to Sweden for questioning over sex crimes...
08:24 AM, Sep 26, 2012
Quito: Ecuador has said it would consider asking Britain to authorise the transfer of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to its embassy in Sweden so that he can respond to sex crimes allegations there. Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino told reporters on Friday that there are several possibilities to resolve the standoff with Britain over Assange, including "that his statement be taken in our embassy in London or that Ecuador get authorisation...
10:41 AM, Sep 22, 2012
London: Already almost 100 days in near isolation in the heart of London, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange predicts he may have to "spend up to year" of being holed up in Ecuador's embassy in London. I am here to be inside for "six to 12 months", Assange breaking his silence in weeks, told on interview broadcast in Ecuador, the BBC reported. Fighting extradition to Sweden over sex assault cases, Assange...
04:52 AM, Sep 16, 2012
London: Britain said on Sunday it remained committed to reaching a diplomatic solution to the presence of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in Ecuador's London embassy, after both countries took steps to defuse a row over his action in taking refuge there. Assange has been living in the embassy's cramped quarters for more than two months since fleeing there to avoid extradition to Sweden, where he is wanted for questioning over...
01:52 AM, Aug 27, 2012
London: It would be "suicide" for Britain to enter Ecuador's embassy in London to arrest WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, Ecuador President Rafael Correa has warned. Correa warned such a provocative precedent would leave British embassies across the world facing similar "violating" moves by foreign governments, the Telegraph reported. In an interview with Ecuador's state TV, Correa suggested the diplomatic impasse with Britain was no closer to being solved. He said...
02:58 AM, Aug 22, 2012
Amid cheering supporters and heavy police presence, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange made a rare public appearance from the balcony of the Ecuador's embassy in London on Sunday and made a direct appeal to US President Obama Barack to stop the witchhunt and FBI prosecution against WikiLeaks. ...
11:35 PM, Aug 19, 2012
London: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Sunday appeared in public for the first time since he took refuge inside Ecuador's embassy in London two months ago. Beginning his address from the embassy's balcony, Assange said, "I am here today because I cannot be there with you today." "US poses a threat to WikiLeaks and freedom of speech," Assange said as the crowd cheered for him. He said that he has...
07:13 PM, Aug 19, 2012
Washington: The US has said that it does not recognise the concept of 'diplomatic asylum' after Ecuador allowed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to remain in Quito's embassy in London. Washington also came down hard on the move to convene a meeting of the Permanent Council of the Organisation of American States to consider the Assange issue. A State Department statement said, "The United States is not a party to the...
05:32 PM, Aug 18, 2012
London: Julian Assange lives in a pricey building in one of London's toniest districts. But he is not staying in the lap of luxury. The once globe-trotting WikiLeaks founder is confined to several hundred square feet of space inside Ecuador's London embassy. If he goes outside he will be arrested by British police and extradited to Sweden to be questioned about allegations of sexual assault. The 41-year-old Australian computer expert...
01:29 AM, Aug 18, 2012
The British government says it will not make it easy for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to leave the country. ...
08:22 PM, Aug 17, 2012
As Ecuador granted political asylum to Julian Assange, Britain has said it will not provide a safe passange to the WikiLeaks's founder. ...
12:55 PM, Aug 17, 2012
London: Britain will not allow Julian Assange safe passage out of the country, Foreign Secretary William Hague said after Ecuador granted the Wikileaks founder political asylum. British authorities will continue to seek Assange's extradition to Sweden, Hague said on Thursday. "Assange having exhausted all options of appeal, the British authorities are under a binding obligation to extradite him, Xinhua quoted the foreign secretary as saying. "We must carry out that...
08:26 AM, Aug 17, 2012
Quito: Ecuador has granted political asylum to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino said on Thursday, a day after the British government threatened to storm the Ecuadorean embassy in London to arrest Assange. Britain has said it is determined to extradite the former computer hacker, who enraged Washington in 2010 when his WikiLeaks website published secret US diplomatic cables, to Sweden where he has been accused of rape...
06:56 PM, Aug 16, 2012
