British Foreign Secretary William Hague said that the United Kingdom will not allow Julian Assange safe passage out of the UK. But his lawyer has stated that prosecutors from Sweden, where he faces questioning in a sexual assault case, should travel to London to conduct their work.
Hague said on Thursday that Britain would not grant Assange safe passage because "there is no legal basis for us to do so" and that he was wanted in Sweden to answer allegations of "serious sexual offenses". He said the extradition had nothing to do with the work of WikiLeaks or with a desire by US authorities to try him for publishing diplomatic secrets but rather a case in which two Swedish women have filed complaints against Assange for sexual assault.
Assange fears Sweden could send him on to the US, where he believes authorities want to punish him for publishing thousands of secret US diplomatic cables on WikiLeaks in 2010 in a major embarrassment for the US.
The US has however denied charges that it was pressurising Britain to seize Assange. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told reporters, "It is an issue among the countries involved and we are not planning to interject ourselves."
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