JUST IN: Ecuador grants asylum to Julian Assange
Ecuador has granted political asylum to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. More on BreakingNews.com.
Photo: Julian Assange is seen arriving at the Supreme Court in London on Feb. 1, 2012. (Kirsty Wigglesworth / AP)
Ecuador says a decision on the asylum request from WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will come tomorrow and claims UK has threatened to storm their embassy to arrest him - NPR News.
In an angry press conference streamed live on the Internet, Ecuadorean Foreign Minister Ricardo Patiño said Britain threatened to storm their embassy in London if Assange was not handed over to police.
“Ecuador is not a British colony,” Patiño said. “The days of colonialism are over.”
(Source: NPR)
