GONZALO SOLANO Associated Press= QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Ecuador will treat an extradition request from Belarus' government for a former financial crimes investigator with the same respect for human rights that guided it in the case of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, the deputy foreign minister said Wednesday. "Ecuador will put the emphasis on not extraditing a citizen whose life is at risk, from the death penalty or life in prison," the official, Marco Albuja, told reporters. Less than a year ago, an Ecuadorean judge denied a request to extradite Aliaksandr Barankov to the former Soviet bloc country whose president has been nicknamed "Europe's last dictator." Barankov, 30, says he could be...
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