16 8 / 2012
The Young Turks: Julian Assange Could Be Arrested In Embassy, UK Warns Ecuador
August 15, 2012
“The diplomatic and political minefield that is the fate of Julian Assange is expected to come a step closer to being traversed when Ecuador’s president, Rafael Correa, gives his decision on whether his country will grant the WikiLeaks’ founder asylum around lunchtime on Thursday.
The decision — if it comes — will mark the end of a turbulent process that on Wednesday night saw Ecuador’s foreign minister, Ricardo Patiño, raging against perceived threats from Britain to “storm” the embassy and warning that such a “dangerous precedent” would be met with “appropriate responses in accordance with international law”.The dramatic development came two months after Assange suddenly walked into the embassy in a bid to avoid being extradited to Sweden, where he faces allegations of sexual assault…”.* The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down.Read more here from Damien Pearse in The Guardian.
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