Assange at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. He has not left the Embassy since he sought asylum there, in June, 2012.Photograph by Nadav Kander for The New Yorker I.The Ecuadorian Embassy in London is situated at the end of a wide brick lane, next to the Harrods department store, in Knightsbridge. Sometimes plainclothes police officers, or vans with tinted windows, can be found outside the buildin