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Ecuador seeks ‘guarantee’ Assange won’t be extradited to US from Sweden | | Ecuadoran President Rafael Correa has said that he wanted a guarantee from Britain and Sweden that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will not be extradited to a third country.
“We've never said that Julian Assange shouldn't answer to the Swedish justice system nor
contribute to the investigation into these supposed crimes,” Correa said. "What we have
always asked for is a guarantee that there won't be a second extradition to a third country as
that would put at risk Mr Assange's life and freedom," Correa added. Ecuador has granted
asylum to Assange, who took refuge at Ecuador’s Embassy in London in June. According
to the BBC, he faces extradition to Sweden over sexual assault claims, which he
has denied. According to the report, Correa has called a letter from the British
Government over its claimed legal right to enter the Ecuadorian Embassy in London
in some circumstances ‘intolerable’ and ‘an explicit threat’, which had to be
rejected. " Ecuador, in a sovereign fashion, decided to grant diplomatic asylum
to Mr Julian Assange," he said. President Rafael Correa used his weekly address
to discuss about Assange. Correa said if a South American nation had acted in
the same way as Britain or Sweden, it would have been dubbed a dictatorship.
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