Tuesday, June 26, 2012

12-06-27 Prominent Americans urge Ecuador to accept Julian Assange's asylum request

Michael Moore, Oliver Stone and Noam Chomsky among signatories to letter delivered to Ecuador's embassy in London
Ben Quinn
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 26 June 2012 01.14 BST


Ecuadorean embassy  in London
A man walks past posters in support of Julian Assange outside the Ecuadorean embassy in London. Photograph: Andrew Cowie/AFP/Getty Images

A letter signed by leading US figures in support of WikiLeaks founderJulian Assange's application for political asylum in Ecuador has been delivered to the country's London embassy.

Among those who signed the letter were Michael Moore, Oliver Stone,Noam Chomsky and Danny Glover.

Other signatories included the author Naomi Wolf, comedian Bill Maher and Daniel Ellsberg, the former US military analyst turned whistleblower, who leaked the Pentagon Papers in 1971 and has been a long-standing supporter of Assange.

Robert Naiman, policy director at the Just Foreign Policy campaign group, delivered the letter to the embassy on Monday, along with a petition signed by more than four thousand Americans urging President Rafael Correa to approve Assange's request for asylum.

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