Julian Assange Will Be Granted Asylum, Says Ecuadorean Official

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58. The embassy might end up being a bit close quarters for everyone there:

it has perhaps five or six small rooms, one of which is now Assange's home; so for the sake of the embassy staff, we must hope that reports, of Assange's poor hygiene, are exaggerated


... A reader, Christopher Fitzsimons, says he interned at the Embassy in 2003 ... and even has a letter of recommendation as proof of this which he sent us ... According to Fitzsimons's 2003 recollection:

The embassy itself is quite small. There is a small reception area with one or two staff members dealing with visitors ... The ambassador's office is located directly across from the reception and is the largest room in the embassy ... There are three to four other small rooms (a fax/printer room, a room with two-three desks used for processing visas, passports, other admin tasks and so on, a kitchen/dining area with a television and some filing cabinets and one more small office, where I worked).

Julian Assange requests asylum at Ecuador embassy
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/jun/20/julian-assange-asylum-ecuador-embassy-live

... Assange ... has been living ... in a small, square room, which friends who have recently visited estimate is around 15ft wide ...
Ecuador seeks to stop 'evil' of Julian Assange US extradition
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/jul/26/ecuador-julian-assange-extradition-us?newsfeed=true

... “He’s tall — probably 6-foot-2 or 6-3 — and lanky, with pale skin, gray eyes and a shock of white hair that seizes your attention,” Schmitt wrote to me later. “He was alert but disheveled, like a bag lady walking in off the street, wearing a dingy, light-colored sport coat and cargo pants, dirty white shirt, beat-up sneakers and filthy white socks that collapsed around his ankles. He smelled as if he hadn’t bathed in days” ...
Dealing With Assange and the WikiLeaks Secrets
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/30/magazine/30Wikileaks-t.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all

... In addition to the serious charges, the police reports capture criticism by the women of Assange’s personal hygiene ... Assange ... didn’t shower ...
Documents in Julian Assange Rape Investigation Leak Onto Web
By Juha Saarinen
02.02.11
http://m.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/02/wikileaks-sweden/

... Former Wikileaks insider Daniel Domscheit-Berg describes Assange as a paranoid megalomaniac whose lack of personal hygiene and table manners suggest he was 'brought up by wolves' ...
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange 'boasted of fathering children all around the world'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1355651/Wikileaks-founder-Julian-Assange-boasted-fathering-children-world.html