March 31, 2013
LONDON: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who has been confined to the Ecuadorean embassy in London since last June, is unlikely to be able to leave Britain before 2015 and his hosts are now hoping for a future Labour government to help break the impasse, a media report said.
WikiLeaks Founder: Julian Assange
March 31, 2013
LONDON: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who has been confined to the Ecuadorean embassy in London since last June, is unlikely to be able to leave Britain before 2015 and his hosts are now hoping for a future Labour government to help break the impasse, a media report said.
WikiLeaks Founder: Julian Assange
The Ecuadorean government has been seeking a commitment from the UK's Conservative-led coalition that it will not support Assange's extradition to the US if he goes to Sweden to face allegations of sexual assault.
Given the ongoing diplomatic stand-off , Ecuadorean diplomats now seem to have set their sights on a possible change in government in the 2015 British general elections and approached the Opposition Labour Party for a similar assurance.
A Labour spokesperson, however, stressed no meeting had been called to specifically discuss Assange but talks were believed to have taken place on the periphery of a meeting with representatives of the Ecuadorean government in London.
Courtesy: PTI
