Ecuador refuses to smuggle Julian Assange out of the UK
NEWS OF THE DAY. The Ecuadorian Embassy in London, where Julian Assange, the founder of the notorious WikiLeaks portal, is hiding, refused to take him out of the country secretly. According to an EFE agency source, despite the acute political situation surrounding Assange, Ecuador wants to “play clean.” Earlier, there were speculations in the press that Julian Assange would be taken out by diplomatic mail, which, according to the Vienna Convention, is not subject to inspection.