No release in sight despite UN panel deciding WikiLeaks founder is being arbitrarily detained at Ecuador embassy
A UN panel may have found that Julian Assange is subject to “arbitrary detention” and called for him to be allowed to walk free,but the WikiLeaks founder still remains precisely where he has been for the past 44 months – inside Ecuador’s London embassy and locked in a three-nation war of words. Britain and Sweden immediately rejected the UN report, which found that Assange had been “arbitrarily detained” since his arrest in 2010 and during his lengthy stay in the embassy, or where he sought asylum in June 2012. The British foreign secretary,Philip Hammond, described the findings as “ridiculous” and the Australian as a “fugitive from justice”. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com