Assange seeks London-Quito ticket but Sweden looms
By Estelle Shirbon
LONDON | Tue Aug 14, 2012 10:56am EDT
... "A grant of asylum from Ecuador would not protect him from extradition to Sweden," said lawyer Roger Gherson, an expert on British immigration law and related human rights issues ...
"I don't understand how the British government has allowed it to reach the stage that it's reached," said retired British ambassador Oliver Miles, describing the case as "peculiar".
He said the British government should have asked Ecuador to hand over Assange as soon as it learnt that he had sought refuge in the embassy. If the answer had been "no," the ambassador should have been threatened with expulsion.
"Why not? The alternative is to say to every criminal in London 'All you've got to do is to pay a small sum to some ambassador and you can have a free ride,'" Miles told Reuters ...
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