https://lettersblogatory.com/2012/06/21/assange-ecuador-asylum/ The Blog of International Judicial Assistance Sun, 05 May 2024 13:56:11 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://lettersblogatory.com/2012/06/21/assange-ecuador-asylum/#comment-13468 Sun, 05 May 2024 13:56:11 +0000 http://lettersblogatory.com/?p=8486#comment-13468 […] of Letters Blogatory posts. First is the Julian Assange diplomatic asylum case. The case was full of irony back in 2012, since Assange, a self-proclaimed champion of free speech rights, was seeking asylum […]

]]> https://lettersblogatory.com/2012/06/21/assange-ecuador-asylum/#comment-675 Fri, 12 Apr 2019 11:36:09 +0000 http://lettersblogatory.com/?p=8486#comment-675 […] to arrest Julian Assange. I haven’t written much about Mr. Assange here, though I’ve made it clear for a long time that I have little sympathy for him. In some way Assange is like Trump. They both […]

]]> https://lettersblogatory.com/2012/06/21/assange-ecuador-asylum/#comment-674 Mon, 25 Jun 2012 15:48:41 +0000 http://lettersblogatory.com/?p=8486#comment-674 Matthew Happold has commented on Assange’s diplomatic asylum request at EJIL: Talk!

]]> https://lettersblogatory.com/2012/06/21/assange-ecuador-asylum/#comment-673 Thu, 21 Jun 2012 13:31:42 +0000 http://lettersblogatory.com/?p=8486#comment-673 The New York Times article on the matter makes an interesting observation: one of the defendants in the El Universo case himself sought asylum in the Panamanian embassy in Quito. What goes around comes around!

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