Ecuador Grants Assange’s Request for Asylum, Defying UK Threats
Found on Wired on Thursday, 16 August 2012
“Ecuador requested some guarantees from Sweden that he wouldn’t be extradited to the U.S., and they rejected any commitment in this sense,” Patino said.
The decision from Ecuador comes a day after officials claimed that UK authorities threatened to raid the Ecuadorean embassy to nab the WikiLeaks leader if the country didn’t hand over the fugitive.
On Thursday, Patino expressed outrage over the unprecedented threat and said that the UK had no right to interfere in the right of an individual to request asylum and the right of Ecuador as a sovereign nation to grant that asylum. No country, he said, had the right “to blackmail or threaten in any way” the sovereignty of any other country.
Quite a few politicians in the US and Sweden will wonder if all this is really worth it. It's so obvious that they only try to help the US to get Assange on american territory.