Assange to address UN on asylum bid via video link from Ecuador embassy in London - India News and Travel Times Provides India-centric and other News and Features

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is reportedly planning to address a meeting on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly though a video link from Ecuador's embassy in London, as another effort to avoid extradition to Sweden. Ecuador 's mission to the United Nations announced that Assange would to speak on Wednesday alongside Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino at a specially convened event to discuss his asylum case. Assange has been holed up in Ecuador 's embassy in London since June 19 in a bid to avoid extradition to Sweden , where he is wanted for questioning over sex crimes allegations. According to Fox News, Assange and his supporters claim that the Swedish sex case is part of a Washington-orchestrated plot to make him stand trial in the United States over his work with WikiLeaks. Both Sweden and the U.S. have , however, rejected that claim. In his last public appearance, a speech in August from the balcony of Ecuador 's embassy, Assange cast himself as the victim of an American 'witch hunt' over his secret-spilling website.