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Sweden asks to meet Julian Assange inside Ecuador embassy
http://www.theguardian.com/media/20...lian-assange-inside-ecuador-embassy-wikileaks
The WikiLeaks founder, 44, is wanted for questioning over a 2010 rape allegation in Sweden, which he has always denied. He has been living inside Ecuador’s UK mission for four years in a bid to avoid extradition to Sweden, saying he fears he would then be transferred to the US to face political charges for orchestrating leaks of diplomatic cables.
Ecuador has been asking throughout Assange’s stay that he be interviewed inside the embassy, and said it welcomed the apparent Swedish “change of heart, and signs of a new political will”.
Long also asked why the UK was unwilling to accept a February ruling by a UN working group that Assange was being arbitrarily detained.
The UN found that Sweden was not being diligent enough in its prosecution, including its failure at the time to offer to interview him in the embassy.
The treatment of Assange is intended to set an example to anybody else who exposes the criminality at the heart of the British and US ' security ' services.
While it is likely that the charges against Assange were manufactured in the first place it is certain that Assange would be kidnapped into US influence if the opportunity ever arose.
Assange, remember, works for YOUR privacy and freedom. Assange is not the enemy.
