Space Industry and Business News  
MILPLEX
Wikileaks founder may seek Swiss asylum: interview

by Staff Writers
Geneva (AFP) Nov 4, 2010
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said Thursday he is considering requesting asylum in Switzerland and basing the whistleblowing website in the fiercely neutral Alpine country.

"That is a real possiblity," Assange said when asked in an interview with Swiss TV station TSR about whether he and the website might relocate to Switzerland.

He said Switzerland, and perhaps Iceland, were the only Western countries that his outfit feels safe in.

Assange told the TSR television that Wikileaks is examining the possibility of creating a foundation that would allow it operate out of Switzerland, and confirmed he might apply for asylum.

"That is correct. We are examining whether I should apply for asylum," said Assange in the interview, excerpts of which were available on the station's website.

WikiLeaks, which last month published an unprecedented 400,000 classified US documents on the Iraq war and posted 77,000 secret US files on the Afghan conflict in July, has said its people have come under pressure and been harrased.

An Australian national, Assange was turned down last month for a Swedish residency and work permit. He was accused by two woman of rape and molestation days after filing the application in what he called a "set-up" by the website's enemies.



Share This Article With Planet Earth
del.icio.usdel.icio.us DiggDigg RedditReddit
YahooMyWebYahooMyWeb GoogleGoogle FacebookFacebook



Related Links
The Military Industrial Complex at SpaceWar.com
Learn about the Superpowers of the 21st Century at SpaceWar.com



Memory Foam Mattress Review
Newsletters :: SpaceDaily :: SpaceWar :: TerraDaily :: Energy Daily
XML Feeds :: Space News :: Earth News :: War News :: Solar Energy News


MILPLEX
Gates heads to Australia, Malaysia to bolster defense ties
Washington (AFP) Nov 4, 2010
US Defense Secretary Robert Gates departs Friday for Australia and Malaysia to bolster defense ties amid concern in the region over China's growing economic and naval power. Gates will join Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and top US military officer Admiral Mike Mullen at an annual US-Australia conference of ministers in Melbourne next week before heading to Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday, Penta ... read more







MILPLEX
NIST Backs Proposal For A Revamped System Of Measurement Units

Software Brings Facial-Recognition Technology To Mobile Phones

From Touchpad To Thought-Pad

Samsung aims to sell 1 million Galaxy Tabs by year's end

MILPLEX
ManTech Awarded US Army Contract To Provide ECCS In Afghanistan

Hughes Undergoing Wideband Global SATCOM Certification

ORBIT To Supply Tri-Band Telemetry Tracking Systems To Patuxent River USNAWC

Raytheon To Provide Improved Track Correlation And Fusion Capability

MILPLEX
Ariane 5 Lofts Dual Birds

Payload Preparations Underway For Fifth Ariane 5 2010 Mission

Sea Launch Company Emerges From Chapter 11

Ariane 5 Rolls Out For Dual Bird Launch

MILPLEX
GPS maker Garmin hanging up on smartphones

Savi Challenges You To Imagine The Best Wireless Applications

European Satellite Navigation Competition Awards

Raytheon Completes Software Specification Review for GPS OCX

MILPLEX
Argentina, Brazil to build cargo plane

BOC Aviation orders 30 Airbus A320

China Southern to buy 36 Airbus planes

Boeing expects China fleet to triple in 20 years

MILPLEX
Intel opens biggest ever chip plant in Vietnam

Intel to open billion-dollar chip plant in Vietnam

Intel to invest up to 8 billion dollars in US chip plants

Intel posts three billion dollar quarterly net profit

MILPLEX
British watchdog says Google 'Street View' broke law

Don't put us on the Google map, says German village

After bitter row, Google launches Street View in Germany

Envisat In Its New Home

MILPLEX
Hungary's toxic sludge disaster claims tenth victim

Exposure Of Humans To Cosmetic UV Filters Is Widespread

Garbage collection resumes in Naples

Bhopal survivors appeal to Obama


The content herein, unless otherwise known to be public domain, are Copyright 1995-2010 - SpaceDaily. AFP and UPI Wire Stories are copyright Agence France-Presse and United Press International. ESA Portal Reports are copyright European Space Agency. All NASA sourced material is public domain. Additional copyrights may apply in whole or part to other bona fide parties. Advertising does not imply endorsement,agreement or approval of any opinions, statements or information provided by SpaceDaily on any Web page published or hosted by SpaceDaily. Privacy Statement