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For the Global Thinker

Thursday, August 16, 2012

Ecuador grants asylum to WikiLeaks' Assange



Do we live in democracies or police states?  In my view, it is certainly the latter and here's more evidence of it...

Ecuador has granted asylum to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange because it believes he will be politically persecuted if extradited, Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Ricardo Patiño announced Thursday.
The UK, meanwhile, has said it is disappointed by the decision and will not grant safe passage out of the country to Assange, who has been holed up inside Ecuador's embassy in London for nearly two months...

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