Assange could go to international court

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38. Assange will take UK to ‘World Court’ if not given safe passage to Ecuado

London, Sat Aug 18 2012, 11:31 hrs

A lawyer representing Julian Assange has said that the WikiLeaks founder will take Britain to the United Nation's International Court of Justice if it refuses to grant him safe passage to Ecuador.

The threat to appeal to the so-called ‘World Court’ came after UK Foreign Secretary William Hague promised that British authorities would arrest Assange if he tries to leave the Ecuadorean Embassy in London ...

Baltasar Garzon, Assange's lawyer, told the Spanish newspaper El Pais that Britain was acting far beyond its authority because Assange was a political refugee accepted for asylum by a sovereign nation and the UK was obligated to honour that ...

“If Britain doesn't comply with its obligations, we will go before International Court of Justice to demand that Britain complies with its obligations because there is a person who runs the risk of being persecuted politically,” he added ...

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/assange-will-take-uk-to-world-court-if-not-given-safe-passage-to-ecuador/989958/


Garzon takes the demented view that Assange is a refugee, and that Assange as a refugee can sue the UK at the ICJ to force the UK to grant him safe passage from the country