Julian Assange seeking asylum in Ecuadorian embassy in London
By Esther Addley and Beatrice Wolf, guardian.co.uk, June 19, 2012 Julian Assange has dramatically sought political asylum at the Ecuadorean embassy in London, days after the supreme court rejected the last of his appeals against extradition to Sweden to face sex crime accusations and after what he called a "declaration of abandonment" by his own government in Australia.
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