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Assange isn’t turning himself over to the police until Ecuador reaches a decision July 04, 2012 WikiLeaks chief Julian Assange has defied a British police summons and won’t be leaving the Ecuadorean Embassy in London until he hears about his asylum bid, a member of his defense fund said Friday. British police had demanded that the silver-haired computer expert report to a London police station Friday, the first step in what would have been his extradition to Sweden over sex crime allegations. But Susan Benn, a member of his defense fund, said he would rebuff the U.K. authorities. “Mr. Assange has been advised that he should decline the police request,” she told reporters gathered outside the embassy, saying that the 40-year-old Australian was seeking asylum from Ecuador and that “asylum assessments take priority over extradition claims.” Source More Wikileaks news. More July 4 leftist and protest news.

Assange isn’t turning himself over to the police until Ecuador reaches a decision

July 04, 2012

WikiLeaks chief Julian Assange has defied a British police summons and won’t be leaving the Ecuadorean Embassy in London until he hears about his asylum bid, a member of his defense fund said Friday.

British police had demanded that the silver-haired computer expert report to a London police station Friday, the first step in what would have been his extradition to Sweden over sex crime allegations.

But Susan Benn, a member of his defense fund, said he would rebuff the U.K. authorities.

“Mr. Assange has been advised that he should decline the police request,” she told reporters gathered outside the embassy, saying that the 40-year-old Australian was seeking asylum from Ecuador and that “asylum assessments take priority over extradition claims.”

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