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Varför tog Ecuador sig an honom från första början? Vad är kopplingen mellan Ecuador och Assange?
Du menar varför de gav honom asyl när han ansökte om det?
Här finns det uttalande som Ecuador gjorde då (2012).
Assange sade sig vara ett “victim of a persecution in different countries, which derives not only from his ideas and actions, but from his work by publishing information compromising the powerful ones, by publishing the truth and, with that, unveiling the corruption and serious human rights abuses of citizens around the world”. Det fanns risk för "a possible political persecution, and that this possibility ends up turning into a situation of impairment and violation of his rights, with risk for his integrity, personal security and freedom". Ecuador granskade detta och kom fram till att hoten var reella.
Det står i samma dokument hur Ecuador via diplomatiska samtal försökte få garantier från UK och Sverige att de inte skulle utlämna honom till något annat land, men det lyckades inte.
With these antecedents, the Government of Ecuador, faithful to its tradition to protect those who seek shelter in its territory or in the premises of its diplomatic missions, has decided to grant diplomatic asylum to the citizen Julian Assange, on the basis of the request presented to the President of the Republic, through a written communication dated in London on June 19, 2012, and complemented by a communication dated in London on June 25, 2012, for which the Ecuadorian Government, after carrying out a fair and objective assessment of the situation exposed by Mr. Assange, attending his own sayings and argumentations, intakes the requester’s fears, and assumes that there are indications that allow to assume that there may be a political persecution, or that such persecution may be produced if the opportune and necessary measures are not taken to avoid it.