Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has been sentenced to 50 weeks' jail for absconding while on bail, when he fled to the Ecuadorian embassy in London in 2012.
Assange was granted asylum by Ecuador after the UK Supreme Court upheld a ruling that he should be extradited to Sweden over a sexual assault case that has since been dropped. He has denied the allegation.
He claimed he was seeking political asylum because Sweden's international arrest warrant would see him eventually extradited to the United States.
After six years holed up inside the embassy, Assange was arrested and dragged out to a waiting police van on April 11.
Ecuador's President Lenin Moreno said the country had withdrawn its offer of asylum and accused Assange of harassing embassy staff.
The next day, he was found guilty of breaching his bail at Westminster Magistrates' Court.
Judge Michael Snow said Assange's claim that he had breached his bail conditions because he could not expect a fair hearing in the UK was "laughable".
"His behaviour is that of a narcissist who cannot get past his own self-interest," Justice Snow said in his judgment.
WikiLeaks' Julian Assange sentenced to 50 weeks' jail over bail ..
Lmao. imagine imprisoning yourself for 6 years to dodge a shitstorm, only to get 50 weeks.
Unless i'm missing something. Would UK extradite him to Americanistan?
i think it depends on the possible sentence he could receive, pretty sure he cant be extradited to faced a death sentence which is possible if he was to be tried for treason you can see an example of this with abu hamza's extradition
Better than being extradited, I guess.
Imagine losing your protection because you couldn't stop being an insufferable jackass to the people keeping you out of prison.
These reports started after the new ecuadorian president that didnt like assange to begin with took power. It seems more likely that they've wanted to get rid of him since then and they just started making these reports in order to justify kicking him out later. Obviously we don't know for sure but you shouldn't believe them.
It's hardly laughable that someone wanted internationally for being a little too emphatic about free press might not get a fair trial in the UK under the circumstances. That judge sounds a bit ignorant, it's wasnt narcissistic for assange to assume he wouldnt be given a fair trial when he was already proven right with the extradition shit moving forward right away.
Don't see this as a good use of my taxes, our government created this situation themselves by refusing to guarantee Assange wouldn't be extradited. He might be a shill by proxy for Russian interests but thst doesn't justify it.
Wasn't he wanted on extremely suspiciously founded sexual assault allegations which is why they were trying to extradite him
imagine believing he smeared faeces on walls.
again we don't know either way for sure, but US intel agencies have a bad reputation that's well earned of doing stuff like this. Obviously the people who do know for sure hold all the cards here.
Can he be extradited afterwards?
If not, I expected a lot more to come of this. 50 weeks isn't too bad.
it would be a very scary precedent if assange were tried for treason.
Who would try him? He is not a US citizen.
By the way, I guess the dead man's switch never triggered.
What conditions needed to be met in full to trigger the dead man's switch?
If you jump bail, get ready to bump jail.
(That made more sense in my head...)
His extradition hearing started today.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-48134901
I think the reason why this is slower is because the Trump admin dosen't want Assange in the U.S to face trial. As theirs a lot of circumstantial evidence that points to how he might of colluded with Russia in the 2016 election, hurts his legitimacy.
I'm guessing theirs other less partisan departments but the WH controls the diplomats.
IIRC no code input 24 or 48 hours after it was due. It was supposedly automated.
He looks like Kiefer Sutherland from Lost Boys in that preview photo.
Oh yeah that's true, the Mueller report talks about the Trump campaign and Wikileaks having been in talks to get the leaks and such, having Assange extradited and then questioned in trial would only hurt Trump and Republicans even more.
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