Wikileaks founder Julian Assange escapes from the Swedish judiciary

He wants to prevent his extradition to Sweden necessarily Therefore, the controversial activist network in London to the Embassy of Ecuador fled there and applied for political asylum. His impending extradition from Britain to prevent Sweden, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange in the Embassy of Ecuador in London fled. The 40-year-old Australian who has lived for a year under strict conditions in the UK, have applied for political asylum, said Ecuador's Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino at a press conference in Quito. Assange is the founder of Wikileaks, which has especially with the release of confidential and secret U.S. documents has hit the headlines. The Swedish Justice accuses him of sexually harassing two women and raped in one case to have. For more than a year trying Assange to prevent his extradition. The chain of command in Britain, he has exhausted without success since last week.

No comment from the U.S.

Patino said that Ecuador will examine the application Wikileaks.The Australian claims that the Swedish authorities to raise the sexual allegations as a pretext and auzuliefern him to the U.S. to want. There, he is threatened with the death penalty, his lawyers had argued repeatedly. In Washington, they wanted to not comment on the new developments in the case. "This is for the UK and Sweden, and Ecuador," says a statement by the U.S. State Department. In support of his asylum application, the Minister makes the read out in Quito, Assange claimed he was from his native Australia has been abandoned. He was being persecuted because he had published information that compromised the powerful because he publishes the truth and thus corruption and serious human rights violations around the world have revealed. How Wikileaks announced via the short messaging service Twitter, Ecuador Assange has been offering since November 2010 seeking political asylum.

Does Assange of Probation?

With his flight to the message of the South American country could Assange have violated his parole, which he has more than one year to bypass the British extradition. The Australian government described the asylum as a private affair of the internet activists. "Mr. Assange make decisions in their own interest as he sees it," said Acting Prime Minister Wayne Swan in Canberra. They would "send the widest possible support, as is normal for every Australian citizen abroad" him. Criticism of the government came from the Australian Greens Senator Scott Ludlam,. "This latest move shows Mr. Assange that he has no confidence in the willingness of the Australian Government to intervene and protect him from prosecution by the U.S.," he said.