In threatening to revoke the status of Ecuador’s embassy in order to arrest Julian Assange on the premises, Britain has scored a diplomatic own goal. For two months, the WikiLeaks founder has been holed up in the ground-floor flat in Knightsbridge, while police wait outside to enforce an order for his extradition to Sweden. Ecuador’s decision yesterday to grant him asylum has done nothing to change his state of limbo.
英國爲了逮捕朱利安•亞桑傑(Julian Assange)而威脅取消厄瓜多大使館的外交特權,此舉在外交上無異於踢了一記烏龍球。兩個月來,這名維基解密(WikiLeaks)創辦人一直躲在倫敦騎士橋(Knightsbridge)地區的一個底層公寓內,而警察就等在門外,準備執行把他引渡到瑞典的法庭命令。厄瓜多昨日決定給予亞桑傑政治庇護,並未改變他進退兩難的處境。
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