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Britain refuses to grant WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange safe passage for medical checkup
Britain refuses to grant WikiLeaks founder safe passage for medical checkup – YouTube
Britain has refused Ecuador’s request to give the founder of whistleblower website WikiLeaks a safe passage for a medical checkup.
Ecuador’s Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino says the British government was asked for the permission after Julian Assange had a sharp pain in his right shoulder. Assange has holed up in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London since 20-12. If he leaves the embassy, he could be arrested and extradited to Sweden or the United States. Sweden wants to prosecute him for an alleged sexual abuse which he denies. The United States also wants to prosecute Assange over the leak of hundreds of thousands of classified documents which brought international disgrace for the U-S government. Earlier this week, Britain announced that it can’t afford to keep so many officers and police vehicles outside the Ecuadorian embassy to arrest Assange.
Earlier we were joined by Scott Bennett, the former US Army Psychological Warfare Officer and Counter-Terrorism Analyst. Bennett says British and US officials want to see Assange dead.
Source: http://blogdogcicle.blogspot.com/2015/10/britain-refuses-to-grant-wikileaks.html
