Amnesty International
"The Swedish authorities should issue assurances to the UK and to Julian Assange
that if he leaves Ecuador’s London embassy and agrees to go to Sweden to face
sexual assault claims, he will not be extradited to the USA in connection with
Wikileaks, Amnesty International said.
In the wake of the Wikileaks
co-founder addressing the UN and with talks due between British Foreign
Secretary William Hague and Ecuadorian officials, Amnesty International added
that it was time to break the impasse.
“If the Swedish authorities are
able to confirm publicly that Assange will not eventually find himself on a
plane to the USA if he submits himself to the authority of the Swedish courts
then this will hopefully achieve two things,” said Nicola Duckworth, Senior
Director for Research at Amnesty International....."
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