Assange Faces Jail Term For UK Bail Breach.
In this file photo taken on May 19, 2017 Wikileaks founder Julian Assange raises his fist on the balcony of the Embassy of Ecuador in London. Justin TALLIS / AFPWikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will be sentenced Wednesday for breaching a British court order seven years ago when he took refuge in Ecuador’s London embassy to avoid extradition to Sweden.
Assange fled to Ecuador’s embassy in 2012 after a British judge ordered his extradition to face Swedish allegations of sexual assault and rape, which he strongly denied.He claimed the allegations were a pretext to transfer him to the United States, where he feared prosecution over the release by WikiLeaks of millions of classified documents.
The US indictment charges him with “conspiracy” for working with former US Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning to crack a password stored on Department of Defence computers in March 2010. The charge has raised serious concerns among organisations advocating free speech, including politicians such as British opposition Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.
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