Australian officials spotted in mysterious Assange visit

[canetoad]

Source: The Age

By Nick Miller
8 June 2018 — 6:48am

London: Australian government officials have paid a mysterious visit to Julian Assange in his Ecuadorian embassy refuge in London, in a sign there may be a breakthrough in the stalemate that has lasted almost six years.

Two officials from Australia's High Commission were spotted leaving the embassy in Knightsbridge in west London on Thursday.
Julian Assange greets supporters outside the Ecuadorian embassy in London in 2017.

It is the first time Australian consular officials have visited Assange at the embassy.They were accompanied by Assange's lawyer Jennifer Robinson.

Robinson confirmed the meeting to Fairfax but said she could not say what the meeting was about "given the delicate diplomatic situation".



Read more: https://www.theage.com.au/world/europe/australian-officials-spotted-in-mysterious-assange-visit-20180608-p4zk7w.html

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Interesting....

[RockRaven]

1. Stinky J-Ass can be smelled from all the way down under

and they were there to register a complaint...

The hypotheses on what this is about are widely divergent. Supposedly he has wanted consular assistance from the beginning, and they haven't wanted to provide it before now. The most optimistic idea is that it is part of working a deal to get him to flip on Trumpland and his Russian contacts. The other end of the spectrum is that Trump is about to pardon him from US crimes, and thereafter the hypotheses again widely diverge on the AUS government's issues/complaints/charges against him.

We won't know until we do, I guess...

[Iliyah]

2. There are Right Wingers in every country . . .

[Nitram]

3. That's my thought. Is Australia going to offer asylum?

[tammywammy]

4. Assange is Australian. n/t

[Nitram]

5. That's right! I'd forgotten that.