WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is sheltering in the Ecuadorian embassy in London Tuesday after he applied for asylum there in a last-ditch attempt to avoid forced extradition from the United Kingdom to Sweden to face sex crime charges.
The Ecuadorian embassy in London said that Assange left the house in rural England where he spent more than 550 days under house arrest to apply for political asylum in the socialistic South American country.
"The decision to consider Mr. Assange's application for protective asylum should in no way be intrepreted as the Government of Ecuador interfering in the judicial processes of either the United Kingdom or Sweden," the embassy said in a statement.
