Assange: Diaries from an embassy

The fate of WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange's asylum case will be announced Thursday. Assange remains at Ecuador's embassy in London.

In London this morning , the founder of the Wikileaks site, jumped bail and applied to the Embassy of Ecuador for political asylum in that country. Quite why he did this is the difficult question to answer. Wikileaks founder is seeking political asylum at Ecuador?s London embassy. As background, Swedish prosecutors seek him for questioning ...

It sounds like a brainteaser: how could WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange get from Ecuador's embassy in London onto a plane to its capital Quito, without setting foot on British territory?When he walked into the embassy on Tuesday seeking political asylum, the Australian ex-hacker pinned his hopes on Ecuador as his ticket out of extradition to Sweden, where he faces questioning over sex crime allegations.But legal experts say the dramatic escape bid has lured 40-year-old Assange, who had exhausted his British legal options -- into an apparent dead end.

Ecuador said it is granting political asylum to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange two months after he took refuge in its London embassy to avoid extradition to Sweden to face questioning for alleged sexual misconduct.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is trying to avoid extradition from Britain to Sweden over allegations of rape and other sex crimes by seeking asylum at the embassy of Ecuador in London. Assange's move is dramatic, but he's not the first person to seek an escape route through a diplomatic mission. Here are some key precedents.

Julian Assange is subject to arrest for breaking the terms of his bail, London's Metropolitan Police said Wednesday after the WikiLeaks founder attempted to claim asylum at the embassy of Ecuador in the United Kingdom.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is trying to avoid extradition from Britain to Sweden over allegations of rape and other sex crimes by seeking asylum at the embassy of Ecuador in London. Assange's move is dramatic, but he's not the first person to seek an escape route through a diplomatic mission. Here are some key precedents.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London and has formally requested asylum, Ecuador's foreign minister said Tuesday.