Tag: Sweden

• Tuesday, September 4th 2012 - 06:18 UTC

  Hague says Assange rights protected by Sweden, UK, EU and international law

  

  UK Foreign Secretary William Hague said that any suggestion of a risk of breach for Julian Assange’s human rights on extradition to Sweden is completely unfounded and recalled that international, EU and UK law fully address the concerns raised by Assange and by the Government of Ecuador.

• Wednesday, August 29th 2012 - 06:36 UTC

  Ecuadorean court ratifies political refugee status for Belarus former investigator

  

  A judge on Ecuador's highest court has thrown out an extradition request for a former police investigator from Belarus who has been jailed since June, ordering him to be freed immediately.

• Monday, August 27th 2012 - 03:54 UTC

  UK/Ecuador defuse row, pledge commitment to diplomatic solution for Assange dispute

  

  Britain said it remained committed to reaching a diplomatic solution to the presence of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in Ecuador's London embassy, after both countries took steps to defuse a row over his action in taking refuge there.

• Friday, August 24th 2012 - 05:49 UTC

  Correa recalls the UK non extradition of Pinochet on “humanitarian reasons”

  

  Ecuador's President Rafael Correa said that Britain's failure to extradite former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet more than a decade ago means it has no right to lecture others over the fate of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

• Friday, August 24th 2012 - 05:44 UTC

  Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa sounds the bugle

  

  By Sean Burges (*) Is Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa really saying that we cannot trust the judicial systems in Britain and Sweden? By granting Julian Assange asylum, he has implicitly stated the British judicial process is flawed and that Sweden is a slavish servant of the US government.

• Friday, August 17th 2012 - 07:16 UTC

  Latam support for Ecuador could turn Assange case in another ‘Falklands issue’ for UK

  

  Another major diplomatic conflict between South America and the UK, as with the Falkland Islands’ sovereignty dispute, could turn nasty following Latinamerican strong support for Ecuador and its granting of political asylum to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange and London’s explicit determination to deny him a safe conduct and have him extradited to Sweden.

• Thursday, August 16th 2012 - 19:27 UTC

  UK determined to extradite Assange in spite of asylum granted by Ecuador

  

  Ecuador has granted asylum to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange two months after he took refuge in its London embassy while fighting extradition from the UK, but Foreign Secretary William Hague said the UK would not allow Assange safe passage out of the country.

• Thursday, August 2nd 2012 - 06:40 UTC

  Swedish authorities turn down offer to question Assange in Ecuadorian embassy

  

  Ecuador wants to prevent Julian Assange's extradition to Sweden because it is disappointed that the Scandinavian country has turned down an offer to question the WikiLeaks founder in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London, a minister said on Wednesday.

• Wednesday, November 2nd 2011 - 20:38 UTC

  UK court rules WikiLeaks’ founder should be extradited to Sweden

  

  WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange should be sent to Sweden from Britain to face questioning over alleged sex crimes, London's High Court ruled Wednesday, rejecting his appeal against extradition.

• Thursday, February 24th 2011 - 16:44 UTC

  British court agrees to extradite Wikileaks founder Assange to Sweden

  

  A British court has agreed to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to Sweden where he is accused of sex crimes, dismissing claims such a move would breach his human rights.