Julian Assange Speaks to BBC Newsnight from Inside Ecuador Embassy in London

06/28/2012

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has told the BBC he almost certainly will not attend a police station after being served an extradition notice.

Officers from the Met's extradition unit delivered a note to Mr Assange at Ecuador's London embassy on Thursday.

Mr Assange took refuge there last week and is seeking diplomatic asylum to prevent being sent to Sweden where he is accused of rape and assault.

He said he was advised asylum law took precedence over extradition law.

Scotland Yard said earlier on Thursday the notice required a 40-year-old man to attend a police station "at a time of our choosing".

But Mr Assange told the BBC's Newsnight programme, when asked if he would go: "Our advice is that asylum law both internationally and domestically takes precedence over extradition law so almost certainly not."

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[TheCentralServices]

Sexual assault. Ridiculous! We rather guess a lot of girls would like to assault him.

[Angel Demera]

English government must understand that here in our country we have a President not a lamb who obeys everything you say... I can see you are accostumed to applying the threat to get something but this time you were wrong.

[MrBiffi]

no doubt the swedens who had been center for espionage scince the ww2, will deliver him to the usa, where we know that human rights seem to excist as long at its not in guantanamo. if this man dies by non reasonable circumstances, i would know the truth. usa, gb, germany and all the rest would be even more courrupt that today. thats frightening and it would suck

[MrChrisb0000]

'government information' haha information cannot be owned, although there maybe laws of the land, the law cannot and should not stop ANY information being made public. It is the right of all people to have freedom to all known information.

[landlogger]

Your comment made me sad and mad. Seems Americans don't recognize honesty and integrity anymore and they keep voting for criminals and thugs. Apparently so damn self centered they Don't care that their votes could endanger the whole world. One shocking thing after another and still they do nothing. Now it is the pres. sitting in his office deciding who to kill (That always includes civilians) Again I guess this is no big deal.

[firebird0u812]

Who gives a shit about what the "Brass Band of Columbus" has to say...........

[DCWhatthe]

If by our fondest wishes Dr. Paul had gotten the nomination and then the presidency, then Assange would feel free to walk out of the Embassy tomorrow. He could volunteer extradition to Sweden, quickly closing down that farce with help from supporters. He would still travel to the U. S., where we and Pres. Paul would present him with a medal and dual citizenship, if he chooses. Just one single event - the election of a good man to U.S. executive office - could have changed the world.