http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19281492#sa...icRSS20-sa
"Foreign Secretary William Hague said the UK would not allow Mr Assange safe passage out of the country."
This is awesome. I really hope Assange makes a run for it, and discovers his own private PP in South America. I imagine other countries on the continent would welcome him as well - Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina. It seems like it will be extremely difficult to execute a getaway; I don't believe a diplomatic escort can protect him once he leaves the embassy.
"The UK Foreign Office had warned, in a note, that it could lift the embassy's diplomatic status to fulfil a "legal obligation" to extradite the 41-year-old by using the Diplomatic and Consular Premises Act 1987.
That allows the UK to revoke the diplomatic status of an embassy on UK soil, which would potentially allow police to enter the building to arrest Mr Assange for breaching the terms of his bail."
I doubt that the UK would follow through with something like this. It's insane they're even talking about it, nominally to extradite a guy who tampered with a condom. It sounds more like a siege situation.. awesome.
"Foreign Secretary William Hague said the UK would not allow Mr Assange safe passage out of the country."
This is awesome. I really hope Assange makes a run for it, and discovers his own private PP in South America. I imagine other countries on the continent would welcome him as well - Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina. It seems like it will be extremely difficult to execute a getaway; I don't believe a diplomatic escort can protect him once he leaves the embassy.
"The UK Foreign Office had warned, in a note, that it could lift the embassy's diplomatic status to fulfil a "legal obligation" to extradite the 41-year-old by using the Diplomatic and Consular Premises Act 1987.
That allows the UK to revoke the diplomatic status of an embassy on UK soil, which would potentially allow police to enter the building to arrest Mr Assange for breaching the terms of his bail."
I doubt that the UK would follow through with something like this. It's insane they're even talking about it, nominally to extradite a guy who tampered with a condom. It sounds more like a siege situation.. awesome.