Quito cannot guarantee that London would not extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to a third country, Ecuadorian Prosecutor General Inigo Salvador said.
“Ecuador has received written guarantees from the UK authorities on [Assange’s] safety but the [Ecuadorian] government cannot do more than that,” Salvador said as quoted by the Republica news outlet.
Salvador recalled that the Ecuadorian authorities had received guarantees from London that Assange would not be extradited to a third country where he might be put on a death row.
Over the past months, Assange has faced restrictions on his communications and other actions inside the embassy, where he has been living since 2012 after received asylum in Ecuador.In November, WikiLeaks suggested that the US authorities might have brought sealed charges against Assange, citing a filing in an unrelated case that used Assange’s name in an “apparent cut-and-paste error.”