Christine Assange, who arrived in the capital city Quito on Saturday, told reporters she will appeal to Ecuador’s stance on human rights during her meeting.
“Surely, the president and his staff will make the best decision,” Christine Assange said, according to a report in the state-run El Ciudadano website.
Her son has been holed up inside the Ecuadorian Embassy in London since applying for political asylum on June 19.
He is seeking to avoid being sent to Sweden over claims of rape and sexual molestation and said he fears if he is extradited there, Swedish authorities could hand him over to the United States.
If her son is sent to the United States, he “could expect a sentence of death or many years in prison with torture as they are doing now with Bradley Manning,” Christine Assange said, according to the El Ciudadano report.
“If they did that to a U.S. citizen, they would have fewer qualms about doing it to a foreigner.”
Manning is a U.S. Army intelligence analyst suspected of leaking hundreds of thousands of classified military and State Department documents while serving in Iraq. Many of those documents ended up on the WikiLeaks website.
He is being held on charges of aiding the enemy, wrongfully causing intelligence to be published on the Internet, transmitting national defense information and theft of public property or records, among others. He could go to prison for life if convicted.
Ecuador has said it is weighing Julian Assange’s asylum request and will make the decision on its own, in its own time. (CNN)