Supporters of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange feel he is essentially a political prisoner, having been granted political asylum by Ecuador in 2012 and unable to leave the Ecuadorian embassy in London since then. Sexual assault charges await Assange in Sweden, but his defenders say that the charges are little more than political cover to allow the U.S. government to nab him as retribution for WikiLeaks publishing documents related to national security.
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