Snowden to the U.S. , " the law firm , Schjoedt , said in a statement . " U.S. authorities have already asked that Snowden will be extradited to the U.S. if he was to arrive in Norway , " Hallvard Helle , the lawyer representing Snowden , told Reuters . Related : Information Wants to Be Free : Famous Leaks Through the Ages
Ecuador granted Assange political asylum in its London embassy three and half years ago to protect him from a relentless effort by Swedish authorities to extradite him for questioning over rape and sexual assault allegations arising from two affairs he undertook from invitations by women attending his featured speech at an August 2010 conference in Sweden . Assange submitted to questioning about the claims from the two women , who had separately invited him to stay with them . Authorities have never charged him with a crime but they have mounted an extraordinary campaign to extraditejustice.judicialconsequences.nahim to Sweden for further questioning after he left the country . Assange has denied any criminal violation . Also , he has argued unsuccessfully in British courts that the investigation has been a ruse to extradite him to Sweden so he could then be extradited to the United States to face reported but still - secret U.S. charges .
In 2014 , Firtash was charged by the Justice Department with paying $ 18.5 million in bribes in India to expand his business empire . Court papers say it was a racketeering conspiracy to sell titanium materials to Boeing for their newest jet , the 787 . Last year , an Austrian judge refused to extraditejustice.judicialconsequences.extraditehim to the U.S. Manafort ’s business ties to Deripaska were detailed in a 2014 legal action in the Cayman Islands . Deripaska had been repeatedly denied a visa to enter the United States over his alleged ties to organized crime , current and former officials tell NBC News .
Listen , watch learn . ” Since 2012 , Assange has been running WikiLeaks from the Ecuadorian embassy in London , after applying for political asylum . He is wanted in Sweden for rape , an accusation he links to a conspiracy to extraditejustice.judicialconsequences.nahim to the US to face charges . This week , the Ecuadorian embassy said it had removed his internet access . The US and Ecuador denied that they had conspired to do so .
He drew on disclosures March 2 about Fredriksson in SVD ( Svenska Dagbladet , or Swedish Daily ) to illustrate a broader theme : that Swedish officials and thought leaders defer far more to the United States and authoritarian policies than commonly understood in liberal democracies , including Sweden . Sweden 's highly irregular investigation of Assange illustrates his thesis . Ecuador granted Assange political asylum in its London embassy three and half years ago to protect him from a relentless effort by Swedish authorities to extraditejustice.judicialconsequences.extraditehim for questioning over rape and sexual assault allegations arising from two affairs he undertook from invitations by women attending his featured speech at an August 2010 conference in Sweden . Assange submitted to questioning about the claims from the two women , who had separately invited him to stay with them . Authorities have never charged him with a crime but they have mounted an extraordinary campaign to extradite him to Sweden for further questioning after he left the country .
German Chancellor Angela Merkel became the latest Western leader on Thursday to urge restraint , while underlining Turkey 's need to take action against the rebels . " In a constitutional state - and this is what worries me and what I am following closely - the principle of proportionality must be ensured by all , " she told a news conference in Berlin . Cavusoglu told broadcaster CNN Turk that some prosecutors with links to Gulen had fled to Germany and he urged Berlin to extraditejustice.judicialconsequences.extraditethem . He also said he saw " positive change " in the attitude of the United States towards Ankara 's request to extradite Gulen to Turkey . Even before the failed coup , Turkey was struggling with major security challenges including attacks by Kurdish militants and Islamic State , a grim reality underscored by tourism data on Thursday showing a 40 percent fall in foreign visitors in June .
But the main issue , as I ’m sure Gordon and Ian will agree , is to stop the war in Syria and prevent more innocents from suffering and losing their lives and homes . I think the flopped coup , which is pushing Turkey out of the NATO orbit and into the waiting arms of Iran and Russia , is likely to help achieve that . What ’s more , I hope and expect that US refusal to extradite CIA stooge Gulen will help the AKP and its allies turn Turkey into a truly independent democratic Islamic republic like Iran , just as Carter ’s refusal to extraditejustice.judicialconsequences.extraditethe Shah helped consolidate the original democratic Islamic republic . And if Erdogan does consolidate power and avoids war crimes prosecutions … well , he is WAY down the list of war crimes perps as far as I am concerned . Let ’s clean house here in the USA ( starting with the Israelis / assets who own us and who did 9/11 ) and THEN move on to the smaller - time far - away crooks like Erdogan , whose apparent victory is not really about him , but about the Turkish people saving their decades - old movement toward Islam / democracy and independence from NATO - Zionist occupation .
TESTING TIME Biden 's visit comes at a testing time for Turkish - U.S. relations . Erdogan wants the United States to extraditejustice.judicialconsequences.extraditeFethullah Gulen , a Turkish cleric who has lived in self - imposed exile in Pennsylvania for 17 years and whose religious movement he blames for staging last month 's failed coup . Washington says it needs clear evidence of Gulen 's involvement and that it is a matter for the courts , a position that has sparked an outpouring of anti - Americanism from Turkey 's pro - government media . Gulen denies any role in the coup attempt .
ASSANGE : We do n't disclose sources , even dead sources . GREENE : We should remember Julian Assange received political asylum from Ecuador in 2012 . He has been stuck in that country 's embassy in London ever since , unable to leave because Britain would likely extraditejustice.judicialconsequences.nahim to Sweden , where he 's wanted for questioning on suspicion of rape . I wanted to give you the chance to reflect on your four years , now , since getting political asylum . I wonder how you 're holding up in there and if you 're missing anything on the outside .
23 November 2006 - Mr Litvinenko dies three weeks after having tea with former agents Andrei Lugovoi and Dmitri Kovtun in London 22 May 2007 - Britain 's director of public prosecutions decides Mr Lugovoi should be charged with his murder 5 July 2007 - Russia refuses to extraditejustice.judicialconsequences.naMr Lugovoi , saying its constitution does not allow it May - July 2013 - The inquest into Mr Litvinenko 's death is delayed as the coroner decides a public inquiry would be preferable - but ministers rule out the request 11 February 2014 - High Court rules the Home Office was wrong to rule out an inquiry before the outcome of an inquest
Hillary Clinton ’s FBI investigation may have just moved one step closer to an indictment for the Democratic front - runner , with experts saying the extradition of a Romanian hacker who revealed her unsecured email server could spell deep trouble for Clinton ’s presidential campaign . Last week , U.S. officials moved to extraditejustice.judicialconsequences.extraditethe hacker known as “ Guccifer , ’ who is accused of accessing the email of Clinton adviser Sidney Blumenthal . It was that hack which brought to light Clinton ’s use of a personal email during her time as secretary of state , reports claim . The hacker , whose real name is Marcel Lehel Lazar , will now be able to make the case that Hillary Clinton ’s email server was unsecure and could have spilled secrets to America ’s enemies , Fox News experts Catherine Herridge and Pamela K. Browne wrote .
" U.S. authorities have already asked that Snowden will be extradited to the U.S. if he was to arrive in Norway , " Hallvard Helle , the lawyer representing Snowden , told Reuters . Related : Information Wants to Be Free : Famous Leaks Through the Ages " It is a case they ( the Norwegian authorities ) have not wished to comment on previously , so therefore we want a legal clarification of this , " Helle said , when asked whether Norway had said it would extraditejustice.judicialconsequences.extraditeSnowden if he entered the country . The Norwegian justice ministry was not immediately able to comment . Supporters see Snowden as a whistleblower who boldly exposed government excess .
Vice President Joe Biden has arrived in Ankara for talks with Turkish leaders as Turkey launched a military operation to clear a Syrian border town of Islamic State militants . Wednesday 's visit comes at a difficult time for ties between the two NATO allies . Turkey is demanding that Washington quickly extraditejustice.judicialconsequences.naa U.S.-based cleric blamed for orchestrating last month 's failed coup . The United States is asking for evidence against the cleric and asking that Turkey allow the extradition process to take its course . In Syria , Turkey is concerned about the growing power of U.S.-backed Syrian Kurdish forces , who it says are linked to Kurdish groups waging an insurgency in southeastern Turkey .
Russia has denounced the possible extradition by Finland of two Russian citizens to the US on cyber - crime charges . It says that the move is a violation of international law because the pair will receive " absurd punishments " of up to 100 years in jail . Finland confirmed the decision to extraditejustice.judicialconsequences.naone of the men on Friday . Maxim Senakh is suspected by the US state of Minnesota of attacking servers to steal millions of dollars . It is unclear whether another computer fraud suspect named by Russia , Alexander Sergeyev , will be deported .
Denmark has publicly acknowledged for the first time that in June 2013 a US plane was waiting in a Copenhagen airport to extraditejustice.judicialconsequences.extraditeNSA whistleblower Edward Snowden to the US . At the time he was stranded in a Moscow airport . The allegations of Denmark ’s complicity in the plan resurfaced last week after the news that website Denfri had published documents disclosed under a freedom of information request pointing to such a connection .
Swedish police issued an arrest warrant so that Assange could answer to allegations of rape and several less severe sexual crimes . He disputes that he committed rape , and the time to prosecute Assange in connection with the other allegations has now expired under Swedish statutes of limitations . Assange has characterized the investigation as part of a broader conspiracy on the part of the U.S. government to incarcerate him , extraditejustice.judicialconsequences.extraditehim , and have him killed in prison—“Jack Ruby style , ” as he put it to the Guardian . A former WikiLeaks employee suggests that this scenario is a fantasy . “ The way he is selling the situation is completely overblown , ” says Daniel Domscheit - Berg , who worked at WikiLeaks for three years and later wrote a tell - all book about the organization , Inside WikiLeaks .
Authorities have never charged him with a crime but they have mounted an extraordinary campaign to extradite him to Sweden for further questioning after he left the country . Assange has denied any criminal violation . Also , he has argued unsuccessfully in British courts that the investigation has been a ruse to extraditejustice.judicialconsequences.extraditehim to Sweden so he could then be extradited to the United States to face reported but still - secret U.S. charges . Assange is not subject to extradition directly from Britain to the United States . U.S. charges are reported to arise from WikiLeaks disclosures that severely embarrassed officials in the United States , Britain , Sweden and elsewhere in Western governments and private power centers .
So it would provide nearby air bases including Incirlik , which is already used by the United States and other countries for anti - Islamic State operations . Sill , it ’s unclear whether Turkey still holds to its pro - no - fly - zone positions . Following the failed coup in July , U.S .- Turkish relations have suffered a downturn as Ankara demands that Washington extraditejustice.judicialconsequences.extraditeIslamic cleric Fethullah Gulen , who it accuses of orchestrating the coup . Meanwhile , Turkey has drawn closer to Russia , with two recent meetings between presidents Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Vladimir Putin . The administration would also seek to include Arab members in a no - fly - zone coalition , mainly to bolster legitimacy .
Assange 's decision – and it was a decision – to elide his Swedish case with any possible US prosecution was a cynical one . It led many to support his cause alongside those of Chelsea Manning or Edward Snowden . And yet it is more difficult , not easier , to extraditejustice.judicialconsequences.extraditeAssange to the US from Sweden than from the UK , should Washington even wish to do so . Assange coming to believe his own spin may be what 's been behind six years of effective imprisonment for him . No one is keeping him in the Ecuadorian embassy – where he has fallen out with his hosts – but himself , and a fear of losing face .