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struggle4progress

(118,331 posts)
Mon Jul 9, 2012, 06:06 PM Jul 2012

For Assange, Home Comforts Inside Ecuador Embassy

... Assange is living and working pretty much as normal inside a small office that also serves as his bedroom. Supporters say he could continue to reside in the embassy, close to the world famous Harrods store in upscale Knightsbridge, for months. Gavin MacFadyen, a supporter and director of the Center for Investigative Journalism at London's City University, has visited Assange inside the building and says that while "it's not quite the Hilton," embassy staffers are "jolly" and getting along well with the activist. The embassy has about five or six rooms and previously was used as a single apartment. Assange has a bed, access to a phone and a connection to the Internet. He can also receive guests, though the space is cramped. The crowded embassy is in sharp contrast to Assange's last permanent address — Ellingham Hall, a supporter's elegant country house on vast grounds in eastern England ...

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/assange-home-comforts-inside-ecuador-embassy-16740865

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For Assange, Home Comforts Inside Ecuador Embassy (Original Post) struggle4progress Jul 2012 OP
Still sounds like prison though treestar Jul 2012 #1
+1 Tarheel_Dem Jul 2012 #2

treestar

(82,383 posts)
1. Still sounds like prison though
Mon Jul 9, 2012, 06:12 PM
Jul 2012

Even if nice, having to stay put there and not go out would be very difficult to live with after a while.

I'd just go to Sweden and face the music. That the US will swoop him up and execute him without trial is delusion on his part.

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