Sweden won’t question Assange in UK as Ecuador cites asylum as condition
August 7, 2015
Swedish prosecutors’ plan to question WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange at Ecuador’s embassy in London has stalled. Ecuador has demanded Sweden give him asylum as a condition of the meeting, Reuters quoted a Swedish official as saying on Friday. “If he wants asylum he has to come to Sweden,” Cecilia Riddselius at the Justice Department said. Assange fears Sweden will extradite him to the US where he could be put on trial over WikiLeaks’ publication. Prosecutors first insisted Assange should travel to Sweden for questioning, but in March agreed to conduct the interview in London.