Assange demanded guarantees

The founder of the WikiLeaks resource Julian Assange demanded that the Swedish authorities give him guarantees that he would not be transferred to the United States. He stated this in an interview with the Australian newspaper The Sydney Morning Herald, Interfax reports on Monday.

According to Assange, for him sufficient guarantees would be the termination of the investigation of the case of the dissemination of the secret information conducted by the American authorities.

“First of all, it all depends on which guarantees will provide the United Kingdom, the USA and Sweden,” said Julian Assange, while at Ecuador Embassy in London.

Recall that the founder of WikiLeaks asked Ecuador about the provision of political asylum . President of Ecuador Rafael Correa, who is known for his left beliefs, was imbued with sympathy for Assange, when they spoke last month, but so far no longer reported the decision of the Ecuadorian authorities. At the same time, the state of the state in London went to his homeland for consultations at the request of Assange.

Assange himself cannot leave the embassy building, since British police officers await him outside, who intend to arrest him for violating the conditions of release on bail . In accordance with them, he was obliged to spend the night at home. Police cannot enter the embassy building, which has diplomatic immunity.

If Ecuador refuses Assangeus, then the UK extracts him to Sweden , which has brought charges against him of sexual crimes. The lawyers of the founder of WikiLeaks believe that Sweden will transfer Assange in the United States, where he was charged for publishing the correspondence of American diplomats, 250 thousand confidential documents of the US State Helicopter attack, which shot a group of peaceful Iraqis with children on July 12, 2007. The transmission of this information is accused of American soldier Brawli Manning .