Julian Assange says he will “accept arrest” on Friday if UN rules against him (thisisnocave.blogspot.co.uk).
“The WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says he will agree to be arrested by British police on Friday if a UN investigation into his three-and-a-half years holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy in central London does not rule that he is being illegally detained.”
Unless embassy of Polynesian chain of low-lying coral islands Tuvalu—which derives most of its income from renting out its Internet country code top-level domain .tv—will take him, and can actually get him there no doubt.
Having cost an estimated £9m for police to keep him holed up at Ecuadoran embassy and having alienated some of his former allies turning them into foes, once an anti-US prize for Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa his behaviour during his stay may seemingly hade made him less of one after reports of some questionable behaviour within, including attempts to access embassy computers and un-politeness.
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