16 August 2012
Julian Assange Protest Photos at Ecuadorian Embassy,
London, 16 August 2012
Julian Assange Protest Photos 16 August 2012
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British police officers stand guard outside the Ecuadorian Embassy in central
London, Thursday, Aug. 16, 2012 after Ecuadorean Foreign Minister Ricardo
Patino announced that he had granted political asylum to WikiLeaks founder
Julian Assange. He's won asylum in Ecuador, but Julian Assange is no closer
to getting there. The dramatic decision by the Latin American nation to identify
the WikiLeaks founder as a political refugee is a symbolic boost for the
embattled ex-hacker, but legal experts say that does little to help him avoid
extradition to Sweden and does much to drag Britain and Ecuador into a
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Ecuador's Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino speaks during a news conference
in Quito August 16, 2012. Ecuador has granted political asylum to WikiLeaks'
founder Julian Assange, 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 U.S. diplomatic cables, to Sweden where he has been accused of rape
and sexual assault. Reuters |
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