Julian Assange has Spent 959 Days, or 1.3 Million Minutes, in Ecuador Embassy
Julian Assange, the founder of anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks, is still holed up in the Embassy of Ecuador in London.
In case you didn’t know, it’s been two and a half years–959 days or about 1,380,960 minutes–since he sought refuge at the embassy. He was facing extradition to Sweden over allegations of sexual assault.
Since then, it’s cost the U.K. government about $15 million to maintain a guard at the embassy, located in central London, reported LBC radio on Tuesday. On average, it costs more than $15,000 per day to guard the embassy.
Bernard Hogan-Howe, the chief of London’s Metropolitan Police, admitted the policing is “sucking resources” from the department.
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