Weekly Report - 21 June 2012 (WR-12-24)

Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, entered the Ecuadorean embassy in London on 19 June, to seek asylum. At first blush, Assange and President Rafael Correa might seem to be strange bedfellows. Assange, a crusader for freedom of information; Correa, a crusader against freedom to criticise him. However, Correa, who is evaluating whether to allow cabinet ministers to give interviews in future to private media companies, clearly has a soft spot for Assange, the man who left ‘the Empire’ with no clothes by publishing leaked US diplomatic cables in late 2010, granting him a lengthy interview very recently.

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