London: Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, said on Friday he would not leave his refuge in Ecuador’s embassy in London to enter a British police station as part of his extradition process to be questioned in Sweden about sex-crime allegations.
Assange has been holed-up in Ecuador’s embassy in London since he made a surprise application for political asylum last week. On Thursday, British police summoned Assange to a London police station, demanding he leave the embassy, Reuters reported.
But Assange later told BBC television in a telephone interview: “Our advice is that asylum law both internationally and domestically in the UK takes precedence to extradition law, so the answer is almost certainly not.”
Police said they had formally “served a surrender notice upon a 40-year-old man that requires him to attend a police station at date and time of our choosing”.
“He remains in breach of his bail conditions, failing to surrender would be a further breach of conditions and he is liable to arrest,” the police statement added.
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