Ecuador provided asylum Assangeus

Ecuador authorities decided to provide asylum to the founder of Wikileaks Julian Assange. According to RIA Novosti, this was announced by the country's foreign minister Ricardo Patinho. "The government decided to provide diplomatic asylum to Mr. Assange," said Patigno, whose performance was transmitted live by the Latin American television channel Telesur. "The government examined all the facts and arguments represented by Assange. It may be a victim of political persecution," the minister said.

Patigno also accused the British authorities of intention to invade the territory of the embassy in London in order to arrest the Assange hiding there. In June, Assange disappeared at Ecuador Embassy to avoid extradition to Sweden. "Today we received from the United Kingdom a direct threat in writing that they can storm our embassy in London, if we do not give them Julian Assange." "The Ecuador rejects the most decisive way the clear threat contained in the British official message," the minister added.

Meanwhile, the Ecuador Embassy in the London district of Knight Bridge has a cluster of police officers, reports the Air Force.

Earlier, the British side said that the decision of the Ecuador authorities in relation to Assange will not change the intentions of the UK authorities with respect to the founder of WikiLeaks.

On May 30, the UK Supreme Court rejected the appeal of the founder of Wikileaks Julian Assange to a decision on his extradition to Sweden, where he is accused of sexual crimes. Assange, for his part, denies all the accusations and previously called the European order to arrest him invalid and not legitimate.

The high court of Great Britain in 2011 has already approved Sweden's demand for the extraction of Assange, but its lawyers challenged this decision in the Supreme Court. In February 2012, they stated that the Swedish prosecutor who wrote out the warrant did not have the relevant authority.

The Swedish prosecutor's office intends to interrogate Assange on charges of rape and sexual harassment presented by Assange with two Swedes. Assange was arrested in the UK in December 2010. He repeatedly stated that he was connecting the pursuit with scandals around WikiLeaks. He called the accusations fabricated and "politically motivated." In mid -December, Assange was released on bail before considering the issue of extradition. The amount of the deposit amounted to 240 thousand pounds.