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(118,332 posts) Fri Aug 17, 2012, 04:31 AM Aug 2012

Assange will risk arrest to speak outside embassy

Published: Friday, Aug 17, 2012, 12:19 IST
Agency: Daily Telegraph

Julian Assange faces arrest when he leaves his haven in the Ecudorean Embassy in London to issue a statement on Sunday ...

Last night WikiLeaks said he would speak statement outside the embassy on Sunday, two months since he entered it. He could be seized if it is deemed he has stepped outside the embassy's diplomatically protected area ...

http://www.dnaindia.com/world/report_assange-will-risk-arrest-to-speak-outside-embassy_1729066

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Assange will risk arrest to speak outside embassy (Original Post) struggle4progress Aug 2012 OP

Assange to appear outside embassy struggle4progress Aug 2012 #1

... "He is stuck in no man's land," said Cary Cooper, a psychology professor struggle4progress Aug 2012 #2

Assange diplomatic row spreads ahead of key statement struggle4progress Aug 2012 #3

struggle4progress

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1. Assange to appear outside embassy

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Fri Aug 17, 2012, 01:52 PM

Aug 2012

AAP
August 18, 2012 2:40AM

WIKILEAKS says its founder Julian Assange will make a statement on Sunday in front of the Ecuadorian embassy in London ...

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/breaking-news/julian-assanage-to-break-silence/story-e6frf7k6-1226453021556

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2. ... "He is stuck in no man's land," said Cary Cooper, a psychology professor

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Fri Aug 17, 2012, 01:53 PM

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at England's Lancaster University.

"One of the things that causes people most stress is not having any control," Cooper said. "He has none. The control is in other peoples' hands - the UK government, the Ecuadorean government. Not in his" ...

"Ultimately the social incarceration will lead to him coming out," Cooper said. "I don't know when that will happen, but I think he will come out."

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3. Assange diplomatic row spreads ahead of key statement

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Sat Aug 18, 2012, 02:34 PM

Aug 2012

Posted: 19 August 2012 0223 hrs

LONDON: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, holed up in Ecuador's London embassy for nearly two months, was caught up in a spreading diplomatic row on Saturday as the ex-hacker prepared to face the world's media.

As the Organization of American States called a meeting of foreign ministers to discuss the diplomatic standoff sparked by Ecuador granting Assange asylum, the Australian national was Sunday to deliver a first statement since March.

WikiLeaks spokesman Kristinn Hrafnsson told AFP that he would not be providing any details of how the appearance by Assange, scheduled for 1300 GMT Sunday, would take place amid the possibility that he could be arrested ...

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/1220850/1/.html

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