Ecuador grants asylum to Julian Assange
Ecuador said Thursday it would grant political asylum to Julian Assange, the controversial founder of the whistle-blowing WikiLeaks website who has been holed up for nearly two months inside the Ecuadorean Embassy in London in a bid to avoid extradition to Sweden on allegations of sexual assault.
Ecuador has granted WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange asylum, Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Ricardo Patiño announced Thursday.