Weekly Report - 27 September 2012 (WR-12-38)

Julian Assange, the founder of the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks, grabbed all the headlines this week as he delivered a video link message to a meeting on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly attended by Ecuador’s foreign minister Ricardo Patiño. It suits the government of President Rafael Correa that global media coverage of Ecuador is focused on Assange and his London embassy home because some unsettling developments at home have left the Correa administration open to charges of double standards.

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