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Julian Assange Discusses Living In Embassy For Four Months
26 Oct 2012 by Seth Rotherham in Media, Politics
2oceansvibe is intrigued at Wikileaks’ Julian Assange and his unique circumstances. Imagine being stuck in the Ecuadorian embassy in London. You’re free to live in Ecuador, but you have to get from the embassy to the airport first – and the British police will arrest you if you do. Bizarre.
CNN interviewed Assange, who says it must be similar to living in a space station!
Four months holed up in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London has been “a little like living in a space station” but beats prison, fugitive WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said Thursday.
Assange sought refuge in the embassy in June, after losing a court battle against extradition to Sweden. Since then, he has been living in a single room with a frosted-glass window while the business of the diplomatic mission goes on around him.
“It’s a little like living in a space station, because there’s no natural light and you’ve got to make all your own stuff. You can’t go out to shops and so on,” Assange told CNN in an interview Thursday. “But I have been in solitary confinement. I know what life is like for prisoners. It’s a lot better than it is for prisoners.”
Embassy staffers would not allow CNN to view his living quarters, but Assange appeared relaxed and healthy despite his restricted circumstances. His comments came the same day WikiLeaks began disclosing a new round of U.S. military documents dealing with handling prisoners in American military custody.
[more here]
Something has to give – or do you think he will live there for years?
We reckon he will stage a disguised escape. Surely? Or inside a secret compartment in a van! Or rolled up in a carpet!
Personally, I would do the disguise. It’s Movember coming up, so that would be a start – a nice, thick tache!
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