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<span class="date-display-single">Sun, 24/06/2012</span> </div>
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<div class="glw-authors">By <span class="glwnews-article-location"><a href="/taxonomy/term/462">Ash Pemberton</a></span></div><div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image">
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<p>WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange went to the Ecuadorian embassy in London on June 19 to apply for asylum, after losing his final appeal in British courts against extradition to Sweden.</p>
<p>The extradition to Sweden is nominally over allegations of sexual assault, for which Swedish authorities wish to question Assange ― whi has not been charged. But WikiLeaks supporters point to evidence released by the whistleblowing site this year that the United States government has prepared a secret sealed indictment against him.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/51440" target="_blank">read more</a></p>