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struggle4progress

(118,282 posts)
Fri Mar 20, 2015, 04:34 PM Mar 2015

Ecuador sees 'light' in Julian Assange case

Published: 20 Mar 2015 07:50 GMT+01:00
... Up to now, Swedish prosecutors have refused to go to London to question the 43-year-old Australian former hacker over the allegations. But the prosecutor in charge of the case, Marianne Ny, said last week she was dropping her opposition as some of the alleged offences will reach their statute of limitations in August. "This allows us to see a light at the end of the tunnel," Ecuadoran Foreign Minister Ricardo Patiño told reporters ...
http://www.thelocal.se/20150320/ecuador-sees-light-in-julian-assange-case


Julian Assange likely to remain in embassy
By Reuters | 20 Mar, 2015, 04.48AM IST
... Another legal source close to Assange said he would remain in the Ecuadorean Embassy until the US ended a grand jury investigation of WikiLeaks ...
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/world-news/julian-assange-likely-to-remain-in-embassy-pending-us-wikileaks-probe/articleshow/46628885.cms


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Ecuador sees 'light' in Julian Assange case (Original Post) struggle4progress Mar 2015 OP
So they admit they're in a tunnel with respect to Assange. randome Mar 2015 #1
My sympathy is with the Ecuadorian embassy staff. Nye Bevan Mar 2015 #2
Looks like they want the stone out of their shoe. nt msanthrope Mar 2015 #3
 

randome

(34,845 posts)
1. So they admit they're in a tunnel with respect to Assange.
Fri Mar 20, 2015, 04:44 PM
Mar 2015

But your 2nd link indicates that tunnel may go on forever. God, what a moron.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]Stop looking for heroes. BE one.[/center][/font][hr]

Nye Bevan

(25,406 posts)
2. My sympathy is with the Ecuadorian embassy staff.
Fri Mar 20, 2015, 05:10 PM
Mar 2015

Who would want an unshaven, unwashed accused rapist hanging about in their workplace in a ratty bathrobe, raiding the employee fridge, drinking the coffee, and ranting about the evil British and Americans to anybody who will listen?

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