15 10 2015 artículo svt suecia

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http://www.svt.se/nyheter/utrikes/ecuador-stoppade-dna-topsning-av-assange

Ecuador stopped the DNA buccal swab of Assange

October 16th

Ecuador's foreign minister Ricardo Patino and Julian Assange during a press conference in August 2014. Photo: TT

Wikileaksgrundaren Julian Assange agreed to allow Swedish prosecutors DNA topsa and hear him at the Ecuadorian embassy in London last summer, but Ecuador stopped the meeting. It says the American online magazine BuzzFeed News aware of emails between Marianne Ny and the Embassy. Julian Assange and Marianne Ny said the newspaper had obviously agreed to meet at the Ecuadorian embassy in London in June last summer, to end the three-year stalemate on the Swedish rape charges against him. Details of the agreement are available in e-mail correspondence between the new and the Ecuadorian Embassy. It appears that the British authorities accepted that the parties meet to Swedish police in the presence of a prosecutor could take a DNA sample from Assange. If necessary, also a complementary interview with him made. The procedure would be made during meetings on two consecutive days, and Sweden accepted Assange's proposal 17 to 18 June.

Asked for help


The e-mail asked Marianne Ny Ecuador for help to carry out the investigation at the embassy, but where did it stop. Mail correspondence shows, according to BuzzFeed, Ecuador referred to a long series of obstacles to the tops and no interview could take place. Among other things, it is for Ecuador to have been important to emerge as victors in the diplomatic dispute, and demands were made that Sweden would admit that Assange asylum seeker status.

Requiring special agreement The country should also have demanded that Sweden sign a special treaty to solve the Assange case, instead of cooperating through informal channels. But with reference to the Swedish Ministry of Justice refused Ny agree to such writes BuzzFeed. Julian Assange took refuge in the Ecuadorian embassy in London in 2012, in order to avoid extradition to Sweden where he was suspected of sexual offenses. RELATED 

Katri Svarfvar katri.artta-svarfvar@svt.se Published:October 15, 2015 - 21:13 Updated:October 16, 2015 - 06:59


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