William Hague to the Swedish authorities who had requested his extradition; thus Swedish prosecutors, unwilling to break diplomatic protocol, have deferred from interrogating Assange at the Embassy of Ecuador, London. Hague confirmed the British Government's position – that it is lawfully obliged to extradite Julian Assange. "We're disappointed by the statement by Ecuador's Foreign Minister today that Ecuador has offered political asylum to Julian Assange. Under our Laws, with Mr. Assange having exhausted all options of appeal, the British authorities are under a binding obligation to extradite him to Sweden. We must carry out that obligation and of course we fully intend
UK–US extradition treaty of 2003 about the level of proof required being less to extradite from the UK to the US rather than vice versa. Among other provisions Part 2 of the Act: Extradition to category 2 territories (non-European Arrest warrant territories) removed the requirement on the USA to provide "prima facie" evidence in extraditions from the UK, requiring instead only "reasonable suspicion". This was necessary to redress the previous imbalance against the USA under the 1870 Act, as the UK did not have to provide the more onerous "prima facie" evidence to extradite from the USA. The requirement for the UK is to show