Jeff Fecke Ecuador has granted Julian Assange asylum, kicking off an epic diplomatic standoff. While he sits inside the Ecuadorian embassy, British police have to stand by outside and wait. If they go inside (or ” storm ” it, as one official claimed the police threatened to do), they’d be violating one of the most fundamental diplomatic rules between nations, and would endanger British embassies around the world by setting a needless precedent. The Foreign Office has tweeted a statement making it clear that they still intend to extradite Assange. It said, “We are still committed to reaching a mutually acceptable solution. Under our law, with Mr Assange having exhausted all options of appeal UK authorities are under binding obligation to extradite him to Sweden.

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Assange has asylum, but his options are still limited