Assange to address supporters today from Ecuadorian embassy The 41-year-old is wanted for questioning in Sweden over allegations of sexual assault, but he fears being sent to the United States to be quizzed over the WikiLeaks website for publishing top secret US government documents, including dossiers on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Ecuador's government has granted Mr Assange political asylum, but there has been no sign of a resolution to the impasse. He gave a briefing to a handful of journalists last month, revealing that a block on processing donations by credit card companies to WikiLeaks had cost the whistle-blowing website over £30 million, with staff having to take a 40% pay cut as a result. He described the block as an economic "death penalty" after the European Commission said it was unlikely to have violated EU anti-trust rules. Mr Assange said WikiLeaks had lost 95% of its revenues, claiming that documents he had obtained showed that hard-right politicians in the United States were behind the blockade.