Raw Video: Ecuador Says Assange's Fears Are 'Legitimate'

August 16, 2012 from Telegraph.co.uk

Ecuadorean foreign minister Ricardo Patiño confirms Julian Assange has been granted political asylum. In a strongly worded statement, he said Assange could face political persecution if his extradition was allowed to go ahead, and Sweden and the United States had failed to provided the reassurances Ecuador had sought over the case.

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Julian Assange

Julian Paul Assange is an Australian editor, activist, publisher and journalist. He is best known as the editor-in-chief and founder of WikiLeaks, which publishes submissions of secret information, news leaks and classified media from anonymous news sources and whistleblowers.... Explore this topic

Ecuador

Ecuador, officially the Republic of Ecuador is a representative democratic republic in South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and by the Pacific Ocean to the west. It and Chile are the only two countries in South America that do not have ... Explore this topic

Ricardo Patiño

Ricardo Armando Patiño Aroca is an Ecuadorian leftist politician. He was Minister of Finance, Minister of the Coast and currently Minister of Foreign Affairs under the government of President Rafael Correa. He is currently one of the ideologists of the The Citizens' Revolution... Explore this topic

Asylum

Rights of asylum is an ancient juridical notion, under which a person persecuted for political opinions or religious beliefs in his or her own country may be protected by another sovereign authority, a foreign country, or church sanctuaries. This right has its roots in a longs... Explore this topic

Extradition

Extradition is the official process whereby one nation or state surrenders a suspected or convicted criminal to another nation or state. Between nation states, extradition is regulated by treaties. Where extradition is compelled by laws, such as among sub-national jurisdiction... Explore this topic

WikiLeaks

WikiLeaks is an international, online, non-profit organisation which publishes secret information, news leaks, and classified media from anonymous sources. Its website, initiated in 2006 in Iceland by the organisation Sunshine Press, claimed a database of more than 1.2 million... Explore this topic

Quito

Quito ist die Hauptstadt von Ecuador und liegt 20 Kilometer südlich des Äquators in einem 2.850 m hohen Becken der Anden und ist somit noch vor der bolivianischen Hauptstadt Sucre die höchstgelegene Hauptstadt der Welt. Sie ist mit rund 1,4 Millionen Einwohnern nach Guayaquil ... Explore this topic

US-Ecuador relations

The United States and Ecuador have maintained close ties based on mutual interests in maintaining democratic institutions; combating cannabis and cocaine; building trade, investment, and financial ties; cooperating in fostering Ecuador's economic development; and participating... Explore this topic

Sweden

Sweden, officially the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. Sweden borders Norway and Finland, and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Øresund. At 450,295 square kilometres, Sweden is the third largest country in the European Union... Explore this topic

United States

The United States of America, commonly called the United States, or America, is a federal republic consisting of fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capi... Explore this topic

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