Assange: Winning Oz senate seat will set me free

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange believes winning a seat in Australia’s upper house would extricate him from his prolonged asylum inside Ecuador’s London embassy.

In an interview on Australian website The Conversation, Assange outlined a scenario that would set him free to return to home.

If he takes a senate seat in the Sept 14 elections, “the US Department of Justice won’t want to spark an international diplomatic row,” the website paraphrased Assange as saying.