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- Ecuadorean Foreign Minister Ricardo Patiño responds to recent reports Swedish
prosecutors will seek to question WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in the
Ecuadorean Embassy in London. Assange has never been charged over allegations of
sexual assault, yet he has been holed up in the embassy since 2012, fearing that
if he steps outside, he will be arrested and extradited to Sweden, which could
lead to his extradition to the United States — which is investigating Assange
over WikiLeaks publishing classified documents. "We are pleased to see the
Swedish prosecutors say that they now want to take the statements from Julian
Assange at our embassy," Patiño says. "But at the same time, we are concerned
that 1,000 days have gone by, 1,000 days with Julian Assange confined in our
embassy, before they say that they are going to do what they should have done
from day one."
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