WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange must be allowed to go free from the Ecuadorian embassy in London following a U.N. panel ruling calling for that on Friday, the South American country's Foreign Minister said.
Time to free WikiLeaks founder, Ecuador says after UN panel decision
Assange, a computer hacker who enraged the United States by publishing hundreds of thousands of secret U.S. diplomatic cables, has been holed up in the embassy since June 2012 to avoid a rape investigation in Sweden.
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"What more do they want to be accused of before they start to rectify their error?"Ricardo Patino told regional broadcaster Telesur, in reference to Britain and Sweden.
Saying Assange was a victim of "evident political persecution," Patino added Ecuador was analyzing its next steps in the legal and diplomatic arena.
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