At home with Julian Assange

[Jimbuna]

An interesting article IMHO about life in the Ecuardoreon embassy with Julian assange in residence:


Last June the embassy had a surprise visitor - Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks, who was seeking refuge to avoid extradition to Sweden where he faced questions on sex assault allegations.
It's been four months now and embassy life has changed
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"At that moment the only thing I was thinking was how to manage him sleeping here. Maybe because I'm a woman I was thinking of the sheets, we still don't have a washing machine.



"That letter came with a gift, the gift was numbers and numbers of policemen outside the embassy. It was a crazy night."
She tells me that late that evening the road was closed. More police turned up. They were outside every window, she remembers.
But she says her biggest shock came when she went to the embassy toilet.
"I turned on the light on and was about to go to the loo, see, and out of the window were police officers." She bursts again into laughter.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20026480

[kraznyi_oktjabr]

What I don't understand in this episode is that why Swedish authorities couldn't interview Mr. Assange in UK? :hmmm:

Which ever way you handle this from now on Mr. Assange will look like a victim and it will be hard to convince public opinion that there is nothing else but routine investigation going on.

[Jimbuna]

As far as I'm aware the Swedes only have to give an undertaking that he won't be extradited to the US and the Ecuadoreans will be happy to let him return to Sweden.

[CCIP]

Actually, something tells me that the real problem is that neither Britain nor Sweden nor Equador want to do anything about the status quo. It's convenient for all three of them to sit there and point fingers at each other or at Assange. That way, everybody gets to be righteously indignant and nobody has to do a bloody thing to fix anything.

[Jimbuna]

You could well be right but in the meantime Assange is going nowhere and is fast becoming the pawn in a much bigger game of chess.

[Gerald]

Assange, is in no man's land in a legal history, but a resolution is expected soon .....