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Assange to address UN via video link from London
September 26, 2012
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is reportedly planning to address a meeting on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly through a video link from Ecuador's embassy in London, to avoid extradition to Sweden.
Ecuador's mission to the United Nations announced that Assange would speak on Wednesday, alongside Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino, at a specially convened event to discuss his asylum case.
Assange has been holed up in Ecuador's embassy in London since June 19 in a bid to avoid extradition to Sweden, where he is wanted for questioning over sex crime allegations.