( CNN ) -- The mother of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will meet with Ecuadorian authorities Monday to urge them to grant her son asylum . 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 . 'Syria File ' unlikely to affect Assange embassy standoff . `` Ecuador will make its own , independent decision , '' President Rafael Correa said in an interview to a local television station earlier this month . `` The case is under review . '' Correa noted that capital punishment exists in the United States for a `` political crime , '' and that fact could be sufficient grounds to grant Julian Assange asylum . Correa also stressed he is not afraid of international repercussions that might stem from whatever decision Ecuador makes . `` We have to see whether everything that 's being done in the case of Julian Assange is compatible with ... the constitution and our view of human rights , political rights and due process , '' the president said . Julian Assange was arrested in Britain in 2010 because Swedish authorities wanted to question him about the sexual molestation and rape allegations , which he denies . His bail conditions included staying every night at the home of a supporter outside London . UK police say he violated his bail by staying at the embassy . After he entered it , they served him with notice to turn himself in -- an order he ignored , marking a further violation . Diplomatic protocol prevents police from entering the embassy to arrest him . Christine Assange said Saturday her son was being treated well at the embassy . `` I am grateful for the facilities Ecuador offered to my son in London , '' she said . Two women have accused Julian Assange of sexually assaulting them in August 2010 , when he was visiting Sweden in connection with a WikiLeaks release of internal U.S. military documents . He was arrested in Britain that December and has been fighting extradition since , saying the allegations are retribution for his organization 's disclosure of American secrets . Susan Benn of the Julian Assange defense fund has said the United States had empaneled a grand jury in its goal to press charges against the WikiLeaks founder . Turning himself in to British authorities would start a process that would end with Julian Assange being extradited to the United States , Benn said . WikiLeaks , which facilitates the anonymous leaking of secret information , has published about 250,000 confidential U.S. diplomatic cables , causing embarrassment to the government and others . It also has published hundreds of thousands of classified U.S. documents relating to the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan . Julian Assange sought refuge at the embassy five days after the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom dismissed a bid to reopen his appeal of the decision to send him to Sweden , his last option in British courts . British officials have met with Ecuadorian authorities , but no information has been released about those meetings . See yourself as another Assange ? Good luck .
` ` Surely the president and his staff will make the best decision , '' she says . Julian Assange has been holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy in London since September 19 . If he is sent to the UK , he ` ` could face a sentence of death , '' she says . Ecuador says it will weigh the asylum case in its own time .