Ecuador ponders Assange asylum plea

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.

Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa says the UK would be "suicidal" to enter Ecuador's London embassy, where WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has sought to avoid extradition.

In the seven years since he founded WikiLeaks, Julian Assange's relationships with a number of his former collaborators and supporters have broken down, with each side variously claiming broken promises or bad faith on the part of the other.

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 ...

Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa slams the UK's treatment of his country as "intolerable" and "unacceptable" amid the diplomatic row over WikiLeaks' Julian Assange.