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UK Said Assange Would Not be Extradited If He Leaves Embassy Refuge

posted by martyb on Friday October 26 2018, @09:31PM   
from the Come-out-come-out-wherever-you-are dept.

Fluffeh writes:

The United Kingdom told Ecuador in August that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange would not be extradited if he left the country's London embassy, where he has lived under asylum since 2012, Ecuador's top government attorney said on Thursday.

[...] Salvador said Ecuador passed on the UK's response to Assange's lawyers, but noted that if Assange stayed in the embassy Ecuador would put new conditions on his stay. "Mr. Assange had a choice between turning himself in to British authorities with those assurances, or staying in the embassy of Ecuador, but given that the asylum had lasted six years with no signs of immediate resolution we were going to place certain rules." Salvador said at a news conference.

[...] The relationship between Assange and Ecuador has grown increasingly tense in the past year. Assange filed a lawsuit in an Ecuadorean court last week claiming the new asylum terms, which require him to pay for medical bills and telephone calls and to clean up after his pet cat, violate his rights.

Previously:
Julian Assange Sues Ecuador for "Violating His Fundamental Rights".

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• Re:"Please change the litter box," said my friend. (Score: 4, Informative) by takyon on Friday October 26 2018, @11:17PM

  by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Friday October 26 2018, @11:17PM (#754293) Journal

  I think it's more about the smell:

  https://www.livescience.com/33147-why-do-cats-bury-their-poop.html [livescience.com]

  The act of meticulously burying their waste stems from cats' long history of using urine and feces to mark their territory. Cat poop may all smell the same to us, but cats can tell their waste apart from another's thanks to unique chemical scent markers called pheromones, which are present in their urine and feces.

  In the wild, dominant cats including those of the Panthera genus, such as lions, tigers, leopards and jaguars that are competing for territory often do not bury their excrement as a way of signaling that they want to claim a particular area. Smaller, weaker or more submissive wild cats bury their feces as a way of ensuring that dominant cats do not feel challenged.

  Wild cats will also hide their waste to avoid attracting unwanted attention from predators to themselves or their nest of kittens. Domesticated indoor cats (Felis catus) harbor the same strong, self-protecting instincts. Even though there are no predators in your home, your cat may not be so sure, and will bury its waste just in case.

  Your cat's careful burying habits are also Fluffy's way of saying that she recognizes you as the dominant "cat" of the house.

  "In an undisturbed home, all domestic cats see themselves as subordinates of their human owners, so under normal circumstances, all domestic cats use litter trays or bury their feces in the garden," zoologist and ethologist Desmond Morris writes in his book, "Catlore."

  If you fail to clean the litter box regularly, there will be a strong odor. That will agitate or confuse the cat and they may end up pooping somewhere you don't want them to.

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