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Ecuador President Denies Rumors on Granting Assange Asylum |
15 August 2012President of Ecuador Rafael Correa denied on Wednesday earlier media reports that he agreed to grant WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange asylum in his country.
The Guardian reported on Tuesday citing Ecuadorian officials that Correa has granted political asylum to Assange, who officially requested it two months ago.
“Rumors about giving asylum to Assange are false. There is no decision about it as of now,” Correa wrote in his Twitter account.
Assange has been hiding at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London for more than a month to avoid his extradition to Sweden, where he faces a case in a rape trial that he calls politically motivated.
Assange’s whistleblowing site WikiLeaks made an enemy of the U.S. government in 2010, when it leaked hundreds of thousands of American diplomatic cables. The U.S. authorities have not ruled out requesting his extradition from Sweden.
He is being held on the charges of aiding the enemy, wrongfully causing intelligence to be published on the Internet, transmitting national defense information and theft of public property or records. He could be sentenced to life imprisonment in the United States, if convicted. |
15 August 2012
Ria Novosti
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