Julian Assange the co-founder of WikiLeaks is sentenced to 50 weeks in jail. He has been sentenced for breaching his bail conditions.
Assange breached a British court order seven years ago. He breached when he took asylum in Ecuador’s London embassy to avoid deportation to Sweden.
London court will hear the application submitted by the United States to extradite the WikiLeaks founder for leaking one of the biggest and most important classified information. The court will hear it on Thursday.
WikiLeaks said, “Julian Assange will be sentenced at Southwark Crown Court at 1030 tomorrow for ‘violating his bail conditions’ whilst seeking & obtaining political asylum.”
“On Thursday at 10 AM there will be a hearing in Westminster Magistrate Court on the US extradition request,” it further added.
The US Justice Department said Assange was charged with conspiring with former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning to gain access to a government computer as part of a 2010 leak by WikiLeaks of hundreds of thousands of US military reports about the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and American diplomatic communications.