Julian Assange will be questioned over sex assault allegations in London

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  • WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to be quizzed about sex assault claims
  • Will be questioned at Ecuadorian embassy where he fled three years ago
  • Ecuador has struck a deal with Swedish prosecutors to allow questioning
  • Mr Assange has been living in embassy in Knightsbridge, West London

Ecuador's president has said Julian Assange will be questioned at the embassy where he has been holed up for more than three years over allegations of sex assault. In a significant breakthrough in the case, Ecuador has struck a deal with Swedish prosecutors that will see the WikiLeaks founder face questions over allegations he sexually assaulted two women, without having to leave the building.

President Rafael Correa said the Swedish authorities will submit questions to Ecuadorian officials, who will then quiz Mr Assange about them.Mr Assange has been living in the embassy in Knightsbridge, west London, for more than three years and has been granted political asylum by the Ecuador government. He is wanted for questioning in Sweden over sex assault allegations against two women, which he has always denied. He fears being transported to the United States to be quizzed over the activities of WikiLeaks if he goes to Sweden. But Mr Assange has said in the past that he would welcome being questioned at the embassy.

In October last year police officers stopped standing guard outside the Ecuadorian embassy in London for the first time in more than three years. Scotland Yard said at the time that it had removed the permanent guard of officers who have been stationed outside ready to arrest Mr Assange since 2012 - at a total cost of £12.6million. The controversial activist has been living in the embassy to avoid being extradited to Sweden over rape allegations.

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Julian Assange (pictured) will be questioned at the Ecuadorian embassy where he has been holed up for three years over allegations of sex assault
 
It isn't a sex scandal, by non-mainstream accounts. It's a frame by the NSA in order to extradite Assange to Sweden to be handed over and punished for lifting the lid on the NSA cess-pit.
The Swedes could have questioned Assange in London four years ago. NSA/GCHQ collusion prevented that. Now the UK, by all accounts, is courting EU states, including Sweden, to support its attempt to be treated as an ' exception' to EU human rights agreements.

Press photographs taken outside the embassy were reported to have shown police notes stating that Assange was to be arrested "under all circumstances".[18] The policing of the embassy during the first two years of Assange's stay has cost £6.5 million.[19] Until February 2015 costs of policing Julian Assange reached £10 million.

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That must be the most expensive ' rape ' accusation in history. Anybody that can't smell spooks isn't sniffing.
 
moon2012 said:
It isn't a sex scandal, by non-mainstream accounts. It's a frame by the NSA in order to extradite Assange to Sweden to be handed over and punished for lifting the lid on the NSA cess-pit.
The Swedes could have questioned Assange in London four years ago. NSA/GCHQ collusion prevented that. Now the UK, by all accounts, is courting EU states, including Sweden, to support its attempt to be treated as an ' exception' to EU human rights agreements.



That must be the most expensive ' rape ' accusation in history. Anybody that can't smell spooks isn't sniffing.
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Actually the European Convention on Human Rights has nothing to do with the EU, it was set up in 1950. In fact it was Winston Churchill who was instrumental in calling for a Council of Europe.

In a speech at the University of Zurich on 19 September 1946, Sir Winston Churchill called for a "kind of United States of Europe" and the creation of a Council of Europe.[SUP][2][/SUP][SUP][3][/SUP] He had spoken of a Council of Europe as early as 1943 in a radio broadcast.[SUP][2][/SUP]

The future structure of the Council of Europe was discussed at a specific congress of several hundred leading politicians, government representatives and civil society in The Hague, Netherlands, in 1948. There were two schools of thought competing: some favoured a classical international organization with representatives of governments, while others preferred a political forum with parliamentarians. Both approaches were finally combined through the creation of the Committee of Ministers and the Parliamentary Assembly under the Statute of the Council of Europe. This dual intergovernmental and inter-parliamentary structure was later copied for the European Communities, North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe.

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Yes, but the rights which Cameron wants to attack immediately are those associated with EU membership, e.g. freedom of travel, state support for individuals etc.
 
moon2012 said:
Yes, but the rights which Cameron wants to attack immediately are those associated with EU membership, e.g. freedom of travel, state support for individuals etc.
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Which most people in the UK agree with, I hasten to add. I will be voting to leave the EU as it is totally useless and a waste of time and money. We are not in the Schengen Area anyway, but it is looking more and more as it is dead in the water as more and more EU countries reintroduce border controls.
 
Borboletta said:
Which most people in the UK agree with, I hasten to add. I will be voting to leave the EU as it is totally useless and a waste of time and money. We are not in the Schengen Area anyway, but it is looking more and more as it is dead in the water as more and more EU countries reintroduce border controls.
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Well, I've not a nice leather passport-holder, some A4 visa envelopes and an electronic currency-converter going cheap if you're interested. Price goes up after Brexit, mind.
 
moon2012 said:
Well, I've not a nice leather passport-holder, some A4 visa envelopes and an electronic currency-converter going cheap if you're interested. Price goes up after Brexit, mind.
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You Merkins really do need to get clued up about the EU and the UK. Firstly we are not in the Eurozone and still retain the pound as our currency. Secondly, we won't need visas to travel Europe post Brexit.
 
12 million pounds? How stupid is that.

I wonder what that would be like to be holed up there for three years. I guess it is better than prison.
 
Konono said:
12 million pounds? How stupid is that.

I wonder what that would be like to be holed up there for three years. I guess it is better than prison.
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Yes. He's probably been spending his time identifying everybody responsible for his predicament and he'll engage a hacker/terminator to fry their identities when he gets out.
 
Borboletta said:
You Merkins really do need to get clued up about the EU and the UK. Firstly we are not in the Eurozone and still retain the pound as our currency. Secondly, we won't need visas to travel Europe post Brexit.
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Fair enough. I dare say that Europe will find a range of other ways to stick it to the Brits.
What happens to the hundreds of thousands of Brits already living in Europe and collecting Brit pensions and benefits ?
 
moon2012 said:
Fair enough. I dare say that Europe will find a range of other ways to stick it to the Brits.
What happens to the hundreds of thousands of Brits already living in Europe and collecting Brit pensions and benefits ?
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Nothing, they carry on as before. Norway, Switzerland and Iceland are in the European Economic Area (EEA) and have all the benefits of a single market without all the bullshit. They are small countries, we have much more clout and will be able to cut a far better deal. Also at the moment it is difficult to buy Australian butter, New Zealand lamb and Argentinian beef liked we used to do pre-EU, because of the Common Agricultural Policy. The founders of the EU knew full well that people wouldn't buy a United States of Europe so they have implemented it by stealth instead.
 
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Borboletta said:
Nothing, they carry on as before. Norway, Switzerland and Iceland are in the European Economic Area (EEA) and have all the benefits of a single market without all the bullshit. They are small countries, we have much more clout and will be able to cut a far better deal. Also at the moment it is difficult to buy Australian butter, New Zealand lamb and Argentinian beef liked we used to do pre-EU, because of the Common Agricultural Policy. The founders of the EU knew full well that people wouldn't buy a United States of Europe so they have implemented it by stealth instead.
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Not a lot there to cheer vegetarians. Personally, I foresee a great deal of disappointment looming for Brexit buffs, not least because the Tory leadership is terrified of an exit, as are Brit businesses. We'll see. 2017 is it ?
 
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