Assange Plans Sit Down with British Cops
NBC reports:
British police were negotiating to meet with Julian Assange on Monday as the renegade WikiLeaks founder came under more international pressure for leaking secret U.S. government diplomatic cables.
Mark Stephens, attorney for Julian Assange, told NBC News that a place and time are being negotiated for Assange to meet with Scotland Yard. It's unclear whether he will be arrested.
No representation from Sweden will be in that meeting, Stephen said.
"We are in the process of making arrangements to meet with the police by consent in order to facilitate the taking of that question and answer that's needed," Stephens said.
Scotland Yard has already received a European arrest warrant from Sweden where the 39-year-old computer hacker is wanted for questioning after allegations of sex crimes made by two women in August.
In another development, the Swiss postal system stripped Julian Assange of a key fundraising tool.
The Swiss accused Assange of lying and shut down one of his bank accounts. The swift action by Postfinance, the financial arm of Swiss Post, came after it determined the "Australian citizen provided false information regarding his place of residence during the account opening process."
Assange had told Postfinance he lived in Geneva but could offer no proof that he was a Swiss resident, a requirement of opening such an account.
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