ASSANGE REJECTS ‘DEAL’ TO LEAVE LONDON EMBASSY

UK, (DAILY MAIL) , 7DECEMBER 2018 - Julian Assange has rejected a ‘deal’ to leave Ecuador’s London embassy after the country said Britain had guaranteed not to extradite him to ‘any country where he’d face the death penalty’.

The 47-year-old Wikileaks founder has been holed up under asylum inside the embassy since 2012 when he was accused of sexual assault by two women in Sweden.

The Australian denied their claims but refused to travel to Sweden to face them, saying it was part of a ruse to extradite him to the US.

Yesterday, Ecuador’s president Lenin Moreno said conditions had been met for Assange to leave the embassy ‘in near-liberty’ and that Britain had guaranteed the whistleblower would not be extradited to any country where his life would be in danger.

But a lawyer for Assange, who was behind a massive dump of classified US documents in 2010, has since said the deal is not acceptable.

Ecuador’s president says the UK has provided sufficient guarantees forJulian Assange (pictured) to leave his government’s embassy in London