Assange broke bail to enter the Ecuadorean embassy almost seven years ago
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange arrives at court in London on May 1, 2019 to be sentenced for bail violation.WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was sentenced to 50 weeks in jail by a London court on Wednesday for skipping bail to enter the Ecuadorean embassy where he was holed up for almost seven years until police dragged him out last month.
She said that it had cost taxpayers £16-million to ensure that Assange was arrested when he left the embassy.Assange was accused by two Swedish women of sexual assault and rape in 2010. Assange, who denied the allegations, fought through the courts to get an extradition order and the preliminary investigation dropped.
Summers told the court that Assange had “strongly held fears” in 2012 that he would be sent from Sweden to the United States and ultimately to the Guantanamo Bay detention centre in Cuba.
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