Julian Assange has been holed up in Ecuador's London embassy for close to three days and there is no telling him what awaits him in case his high-profile application for asylum was rejected by the country he cherry-picked because it apparently opposes bullying from the United States.

The embattled WikiLeaks founder had assumed that Ecuador, which is currently ruled by a left-leaning president, would be sympathetic with his cause, if not with his plight.

In an interview with ABC, the self-styled anti-American whistleblower said he had opted to violate the terms of his house arrest set-up and bail, which forfeited the $US380,000 bond that his friends and supporters had pooled together, because he believed Ecuadorian authorities would grant him protection denied to him by Australia.

"We had heard that the Ecuadoreans were sympathetic in relation to my struggles and the struggles of the organisation with the United States," Mr Assange told ABC on Thursday.

The former was firmly convinced that the U.S. authorities were after his neck following the leaked documents last year that his site had facilitated, which detailed confidential information on America's conduct in the Afghan and Iraq wars.

The published diplomatic cables also unleashed unsavoury comments from U.S. diplomats stationed around the world, exposing how the U.S. government actually viewed some of its friends, which in most cases carried embarrassing assessments.

Mr Assange is insistent that Sweden's request for his extradition from the United Kingdom would eventually deliver him to the hands of U.S. authorities, which he said would try him for espionage and sedition, punishable by death in U.S. courts.

The Australian is also adamant that the rape cases attributed to him by Swedish authorities were mere fabrications, arguing that the two women, formerly WikiLeaks volunteers, had consensual sex with him.

Mr Assange said he took his chance when the British High Court had decided not to review his legal pleas but admitted that his gamble in asking for the protection of Ecuador will not necessarily lead in a favourable situation for him.

WikiLeaks said that the asylum application by its founder will be tackled thoroughly by Ecuador and "it could take hours, it could take days," prior to the handing down of a definitive decision on the matter.

Mr Assange confirmed the information, adding that he himself was clueless on until when he would stay under the protection of the Ecuadorian embassy or if the country would grant him asylum.

The former hacker had lamented that he had nowhere to run as Canberra had left him in the dark when Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Foreign Minister Bob Carr decided to keep their hands off the troubles he faces.

But Ms Gillard said today that Mr Assange was far from being forsaken by Australia, insisting in a statement that "Mr Assange has received continuing consular assistance in exactly the same way any Australian citizen facing legal issues would."

"The assistance to Mr Assange has included consular officials being in attendance at court for each day of the proceedings of his legal matters. Consular staffs have been in contact continuously with his legal team," the Prime Minister was reported by The Herald Sun as saying on Friday.

She admitted though that no Australian diplomat has yet to personally see the controversial Aussie but because "Mr Assange has not requested or sought for those dealings to be directly with him."

He may be enjoying diplomatic protection from Ecuador for now but Mr Assange seems aware of the fact that his fate hangs in limbo.

And the only sure thing that awaits him is the British police officers outside of his temporary sanctuary, all ready to cuff him whether he wins asylum from Quito or not.