It always amazes me how many rich and famous people feel that having to do things like ‘clean up after your cat’ or ‘pay for your food’ are horrible impositions on their basic human rights.
He once had little people to do that.
His kids gave him the cat.
Of course it is - it is the Wikileaks cat. If his bathroom is filthy, Assange must leak too… 
Maybe he’d feel more cooperative if the Ecuadorians offerend him a visit from the Saudo visiting team, complete with doctor and bone saw.
All the wrong people are getting murdered in embassies these days.
Is he an asylum claimant? Can you claim asylum in a country you’re not in, and have it mean anything?
There appear to be real espionage concerns and his hosts are putting limits on his access to the Internet or potential liaisons. On the other hand, if he wishes freedom of speech, all he has to do is leave.
He may be famous, but is he rich?
It worked for József Mindszenty for fifteen years.
Well, he says there are. It’s a matter of debate whether anyone in the past, present or future has or will treated him with the kind of persecution the Geneva Convention is concerned with. AFAIK, the only thing he’s wanted for in Britain is jumping bail. Does anyone else have outstanding charges against him? The US might, but have any US authorities made any substantive moves to proceed with such?
Not publicly, but it’s theoretically possible that he’s been indicted in secret, and that the charges (whatever they’d be, if there are any) will only be unsealed once he’s apprehended.
Asylum procedures vary by country, but generally you can apply for asylum in a country’s embassy abroad. Ecuador granted him asylum and he has the legal status of a refugee.
(sorry. can’t get multi-quotes to work)
it’s not the Geneva Conventions that apply but rather the 1951 Refugee Convention and the 1967 Protocol.
I don’t believe he faces charges other than the bail jumping one. It’s hard to see the Trump administration going after him, given how it’s benefitted from Wikileaks. So Ecuador really ought to boot him out.
I would love to be there to see him bodily thrown out of the embassy and into the eager arms of the London Metropolitan police.
You are expecting consistency from this administration? They’ll go after him with all guns blazing just for messin’ with Murrica.
The same way anybody acquires a cat. The cat just turns up and purrs until it gets fed. Then it keeps pissing everywhere to remind you who’s the pet in this relationship.
Why did Ecuador involve itself in all of this to begin with?
Did they truly feel that he deserved protection?
Do they have laws saying that their embassies must accept refugees (something I highly doubt)?
Is Assange blackmailing them somehow?
Do they know if it’s the cat, or Assange, who is peeing on the carpet?
I understand that Sweden has many rooms available for Assange that have clean bathrooms and are free of cat pee stains/smells. He would only need to ask for one in person.
Ecuador has a long tradition of offering asylum to the politically persecuted. And the president at the time, Rafael Correa, enjoyed thumbing his nose at the United States.
How long until Correa needs to find an embassy to hide in?
Perhaps one of the reasons for evicting the cat hater is to clean house from Correa’s days.