Assange supporters should pay

The pressure increases Because the flight of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange have in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London now nine of his supporters to pay a high guarantee to the British justice system. Judge Howard Riddle said on Monday that they had failed to act as a guarantor to secure Assange's extradition to the British judiciary. Therefore, they would have in the next month to pay a total of 93,500 pounds, if the defendant did not call. Vice, which is around 116,000 euros. There are some prominent helpers who just want to stand for Assange. The nine affected supporters are loud, "Huffington Post ", the Australian author and journalist Phillip Knightley, the scientist John Sulston and the actress and activist Tracy Worcester. The nine guarantors have pledged each with amounts from 3500 to 15,000 pounds. When the money is a guarantee with his flight should be avoided. It is part of the conditions under which Assange was released in December 2010 from custody.Since Assange by his escape into the Ecuadorian embassy had failed in July against these requirements, the guarantee is now demanded. The deposit of 200,000 pounds, the other supporters had paid will be retained. The whole point of the Australians in Sweden to be heard allegations of sexual misconduct. By his own account, he feared, however, to be extradited from Sweden to the United States , where the courts could prosecute him for espionage and betrayal of state secrets. In August, the 41-year-old was officially asylum in Ecuador . Should he leave the building of the Ecuadorian Embassy, ​​he faces the arrest by the British police. WikiLeaks had through the publication of information about the operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, and some 250,000 confidential U.S. diplomat end Peschen drawn the ire of the government in Washington to himself. The U.S. has, however, taken any legal action against Assange.