Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, is expected to appear in a UK court tomorrow!

[Carsten Wiethoff]

From the research I've done, there seems to be no maximum size of a diplomatic pouch, as long as it can be carried by one or two Embassy persons....hint, hint, hint. The European Court of Justice would be a good way to go, but it will take a LOOOOONG time, at best. The more time the UK has, the more dirty tricks they can think of [fire in the area; bomb threats, etc. to clear the building] - or if they dare - taking away the status of an Embassy from the Ecuadorians [political suicide - as every British diplomat and Embassy everywhere would then be fair game! - as would a total breakdown in the sanctity of Embassies of all Nations.]. Broken condoms I think this is not about.....its about American revenge for whistleblowers exposing the rising tide of lies, wars, misdeeds, etc. Sweden should be very ashamed of itself...for it could end this all by visiting London and asking the oh-so-vital questions of Assange.

Technically the Equadorian Embassador could declare Julian Assange a diplomatic courier (Article 27 Vienna Convention):

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5.The diplomatic courier, who shall be provided with an official document indicating his statusand the number of packages constituting the diplomatic bag, shall be protected by the receiving State inthe performance of his functions. He shall enjoy person inviolability and shall not be liable to any formof arrest or detention.6.The sending State or the mission may designate diplomatic couriers ad hoc. In such cases theprovisions of paragraph 5 of this article shall also apply, except that the immunities therein mentioned

shall cease to apply when such a courier has delivered to the consignee the diplomatic bag in his charge.
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Just give him the necessary papers and a message to deliver to President Correa, and he will be out.

Yesterday I would have been very proud to be an Equadorian. But all the time and especially after reading about the Equadorian efforts to establish guarantees for Assange I would be very worried to be Swedish. There must be hundreds of cases in Sweden, in which someone is wanted for questioning, in which no European Arrest Warrant has ever been written. There also must be hundreds or thousands of cases in which someone CONVICTED for rape has been sentenced to less than one and a half year of house arrest. There must also be cases in which someone was questioned outside Sweden. How can any Swede live in this country and not be worried to death about the deep corruption in the judicial system that becomes obvious to anyone with eyes to see?
I perfectly know that if it can happen in Sweden, it can happen anywhere, and it has. Not a reason to be less worried.