Alex Carlile: British Lawyer

Sweden Dept: Now the WikiLeaks founder finds himself confined in Ecuador's London embassy, where he was holed up Wednesday while diplomats discussed his fate and British police waited outside to arrest him if he leaves. 'He knows he's reached the end of the road in the U.K. He knows he's going to be extradited to Sweden. Basically, he has nowhere to go.' Senior British lawyer Alex Carlile, according to CBC. "He knows he's reached the end of the road in the U.K. He knows he's going to be extradited to Sweden," said Alex Carlile, a senior British lawyer with expertise in extradition matters. "Basically, he has nowhere to go." Legal limbo Julian Assange has spent years on the move, trying to keep ahead of authorities who want to stop his secret-spilling mission. Assange is seeking political asylum in the South American nation, in a dramatic bid to avoid extradition to Sweden for questioning about alleged sex crimes. His supporters say he fears charges in the United States for leaking hundreds of thousands of secret U.S. documents. But some legal experts say it is a desperate and likely futile move. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.