Tonight's Dateline: Assange's Legal Limbo

What awaits Julian Assange if he reaches Ecuador? And what does his lawyer think of Sweden and Australia's role? Dateline reports tonight.

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Julian Assange – champion of press freedom and government openness – remains holed up in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, but what awaits him if he ever makes it to Ecuador?

, and finds President Correa is on a crusade against the media and is seen as anything but a supporter of free speech.

He regularly unleashes a tirade of abuse against journalists, and the government is allowed by law to interrupt broadcasts with any 'corrections' it wishes to make.

Amos also meets Aliaksandr Barankov, who was granted asylum in Ecuador after uncovering corruption in his native Belarus.

But despite fearing for his life, he was threatened with extradition to Belarus and its questionable human rights… all just weeks before Assange was granted asylum.

, Yaara Bou Melhem catches up with his Australian lawyer Jennifer Robinson in Stockholm.

She's critical of what she describes as the lack of action by the Australian Government, and she gives her thoughts on where the controversy has left Sweden's reputation on human rights.

So with five countries now drawn into the debate over Assange's future, what options does he now have?

Watch tonight at 9.30pm on SBS ONE, and .


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Published 11 September 2012 12:05pm
Updated 3 September 2013 6:02pm
By Dateline
Source: Dateline


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