Julian Assange arriving to speak to
Occupy London protesters by St Paul’s Cathedral last year. Photograph:
Dan Kitwood/Getty Images Europe
The diplomatic and political minefield that is the fate of Julian Assange is expected to come a step closer to being traversed when Ecuador's president, Rafael Correa, gives his decision on whether his country will grant the WikiLeaks' founder asylum around lunchtime on Thursday.
The
decision – if it comes – will mark the end of a turbulent process that
on Wednesday night saw Ecuador's foreign minister, Ricardo Patiño,
raging against perceived threats from Britain to "storm" the embassy and
warning that such a "dangerous precedent" would be met with
"appropriate responses in accordance with international law".
