Assange's Ecuador bid sparks wacky escape ideas

A news website says WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange regards his bid to become an Australian senator as a defense against potential criminal prosecution in the United States and Britain. Assange spoke to The Conversation website at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London where he was granted asylum in June to avoid extradition to Sweden on sex crime allegations. If he wins a Senate seat at elections on Sept. 24, Assange told the website in an article published on Monday that the U.S. Department of Justice would drop its espionage investigation rather than risk a diplomatic row.

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 ...

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 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.

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 appeared in a British court on Tuesday to begin the latest stage of his bitter legal battle against extradition to Sweden to face allegations of rape.The 40-year-old Australian is launching an appeal at the High Court in London against a ruling in February in which a judge rejected his defence's arguments that he would face an unfair trial in Sweden.Wearing a grey suit, blue tie, white shirt and glasses, Assange got out of a black car and walked slowly into the imposing court building surrounded by a scrum of cameramen and journalists.

Ecuador's foreign minister said that WikiLeaks chief Julian Assange has taken refuge in the South American nation's embassy in London and is seeking political asylum.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange appeared in a British court on Monday to fight attempts to extradite him to Sweden over sex crime allegations.Lawyers for the 39-year-old Australian are expected to argue that the extradition request is unacceptable because he has not been charged with any crime.Wearing a grey coat and dark blue suit and tie, Assange smiled as he entered the complex at Belmarsh Magistrates' Court in southeast London, Britain's highest security court, for the start of the two-day hearing.