Patino calls error not giving passage to Assange

Ricardo Patino

The foreign minister warned last Monday that the British government “is committing a grave error” by not giving a safe passage to Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, so he can leave the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where he has taken refuge for 14 months.

“We believe (the British government) is making a big mistake to have so much time to a human in the conditions in which he is, due to their through inaction by not granting him safe-passage, he’s being kept,” Patino said to Telesur in Caracas (Venezuela).

The Chancellor said “we hope that the British government, at some point, understand that what they are doing is wrong, that what you are doing is against the law and international standards,” said the chancellor, who again urged the British government to “make a decision based on the enough legal foundation.”