Ecuador's Correa `Seriously' Reviewing Assange Asylum
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Julian Assange sought asylum in Ecuador’s Embassy in London yesterday to avoid what he says are U.S. efforts to punish him for releasing diplomatic secrets through his WikiLeaks website.
Ecuador is studying the request and is in contact with the U.K. government, the Andean country’s Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino told reporters in a brief statement in Quito. Assange entered the embassy in the Knightsbridge area of London after exhausting options in U.K. courts to avert extradition to Sweden, where he faces questioning on allegations of rape and sexual molestation.