Daniel Leal-Olivas / GettyLONDON—Julian Assange has been sentenced to 50 weeks in prison after being found guilty of bail-skipping charges in Britain.The WikiLeaks founder was arrested and dragged out of London’s Ecuadorian embassy by British police in April. For the seven years he was holed up in the
LONDON—Julian Assange has been sentenced to 50 weeks in prison after being found guilty of bail-skipping charges in Britain.
Assange apologized in court for breaching his bail—but it wasn’t enough for the judge show him any leniency. Fifty weeks was just below the maximum possible sentence of 12 months in prison, and the judge told Assange that his case was “exceptional in seriousness” and said “by entering the embassy, you deliberately put yourself out of reach.”
In a letter read to the court, Assange said he had found himself “struggling with difficult circumstances” and complained that he had been suffering from depression and a toothache. He apologized to anyone who “consider[s] I’ve disrespected them,” and added: “I did what I thought at the time was the best or perhaps the only thing that I could have done.”
British police also arrested Assange last month on behalf of U.S. authorities who have charged him with illegally helping Chelsea Manning to crack a computer password to steal thousands of classified documents.
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