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No quick way out for Wikileaks boss Assange, Ecuador prosecutors say

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No quick way out for Wikileaks boss Assange, Ecuador prosecutors say

A statement by Ecuador’s prosecutors reveals that there is no quick way out for WikiLeaks boss Julian Assange who has been holed up in the country’s embassy in Britain in the last four years.

According to Ecuador’s prosecutor, Galo Chiriboga, “We will deliver a written version of the testimony to Swedish prosecutors and will do so in December after Swedish prosecutors earlier this month questioned Assange at the London embassy in an investigation into allegations that he committed rape in Sweden in 2010”.

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Assange, who is Australian, fears deportation to Sweden and the United States, where he could be charged for the publication of hundreds of thousands of secret U.S. diplomatic cables.

“Four years have passed and we are only at this stage, but that is no longer attributable to Ecuador, it is attributable to Swedish prosecutors. I do not think there is a quick way out,” Chiriboga told reporters.

 

 

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