A file photo of Assange seen in a police van after his arrest by British police outside the Ecuadorian embassy in London on April 11, 2019. – Reuters
LONDON (AP): A British judge sentenced WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Wednesday to 50 weeks in prison for skipping bail seven years ago and holing up in the Ecuadorian embassy.
Judge Deborah Taylor said it was hard to imagine a more serious version of the offence as she gave the 47-year-old hacker a sentence close to the maximum of a year in custody.
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