Julian Assange defyance to London police: seeking asylum to Ecuador

WikiLeaks hero Julian Assange shows his nerves in defying the british police to leave the Ecuadorian Embassy and he believes that Ecuador will look sympathetically at his request for political asylum. Human rights lawyer Michael Ratner who is also in the Assange's legal team, told the news media on Friday. British police had demanded that this revolutionary computer hacker report to a London police station within Friday, the first step in what would have been his extradition to Sweden over sex crime allegations. But a member of his defense fund Susan Ben said that he would rebuff the UK authorities.

She said news reporters waiting outside the embassy, "Mr Assange has been advise that he should decline the police request" and said that the 40 year old silver haired computer expert was seeking asylum from Ecuador and that the "asylum assessments take priority over extradition claims."

People showing playcard in support of Assange

Assange had been widely expected to ignore the U.K. summons. He argues that the sex claims made against him by two Swedish women back in 2010 have been manipulated by his enemies and that extradition to Sweden is a first step in a plan to fly him to the United States, where officials are investigating him and his secret-spilling website over the disclosures of hundreds of thousands of confidential government documents. 

Assange has fought extradition through the U.K. court system for the better part of two years. It was when his legal options ran out earlier this month that Assange made the dramatic decision to skip bail and seek refuge with Ecuador — a small Latin American nation whose leader has long expressed sympathy for WikiLeaks.

British police can't arrest Assange until he leaves the embassy, and Ecuadorean officials are still weighing Assange's asylum request. Even if they grant it, it isn't clear he'll be able to leave for Ecuador without being detained once he steps out the door. He could conceivably camp out at the embassy indefinitely, although that would presumably constrain his freedom.

This house will decide where Assange to go