Serves him right. Now we'll see if he gets tried for rape in Sweden and extradited to the US too...WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was sentenced Wednesday to 50 weeks in a British prison for jumping bail in 2012. He apologized to the court, but the judge said he had used his “privileged position” to show disdain for British law.
Assange next faces an extradition hearing on Thursday related to a separate and potentially more consequential charge in the United States of conspiring to hack a government password. Legal experts anticipate the extradition fight could take years.
Assange, 47, appeared at London’s Southwark Crown Court wearing a black jacket and gray sweater, the bushy white beard seen during his arrest last month now neatly trimmed. He answered the judge in a quiet voice from behind a glass wall in a bland courtroom packed with journalists taking notes.
The Australian citizen had faced up to a year in a British prison for his bail violation — the maximum penalty for such an offense. He broke his bail conditions in 2012 when he fled to the Ecuadoran Embassy in London after Sweden requested his extradition in a case involving sexual assault allegations, including rape. Assange has denied those accusations.
In court on Wednesday, defense attorney Mark Summers argued that Assange failed to surrender to a British court seven years ago and so violated his bail because he was terrified that if he were extradited to Sweden, he would quickly be handed over to U.S. authorities — and could even be sent to Guantanamo Bay — for his part in leaking a trove of classified government documents.
Heroic journalists MUST be punished and silenced by any and every means available to the Nation State.
Heroic journalists MUST be punished and silenced by any and every means available to the Nation State.
Heroic journalists MUST be punished and silenced by any and every means available to the Nation State.
Assange is a political victimhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...e9-bbe7-1c798fb80536_story.html?noredirect=on
Serves him right. Now we'll see if he gets tried for rape in Sweden and extradited to the US too...
Assange, speaking from Belmarsh prison, was wearing a sports jacket and was not handcuffed.
Asked by Judge Michael Snow if he wished to consent to surrender himself for extradition, Assange said: "I do not wish to surrender myself for extradition for doing journalism that's won many, many awards and affected many people."
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Serves him right. Now we'll see if he gets tried for rape in Sweden and extradited to the US too...
Heroic journalists MUST be punished and silenced by any and every means available to the Nation State.
Assange is an enemy of the United States of America and should be dealt with accordingly. I hope that this bail-dodging sentence will be the first of many to come for him.
Assange is an enemy of the United States of America and should be dealt with accordingly. I hope that this bail-dodging sentence will be the first of many to come for him.
Hyperbolic nonsense. He skipped bail and took advantage of asylum laws against a rape charge. He's a petty little criminal weasel.
I think you need to read up on those rape charges. Bogus!
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Now he's fighting extradition: Julian Assange starts extradition fight from UK prison - CNN
What an arrogant a**hole. I hope he does get extradited. Let's see how he lasts in a US prison.
Looking back on it, Assange is probably responsible for 911 too. Hang him from the yardarm! Civilization will prevail.
Yes, like John Peter Zenger's case, it's part of the American and British way. It's part of our Judeo-Christian Heritage.
I join other members (and guests) in wishing the best to Mr. Assange and his supporters.
If it had been an American court, he no doubt would have been sentenced to many years' imprisonment.
Violent criminals get very little punishment (especially if they are just "kids"), but non-violent offenders get the book thrown at them.
I hope that some deal can be worked out so that Mr. Assange can avoid being extradited to this country.
P.S. Since it's an English jail, hopefully he will be better protected from violent inmates than he would be in American prisons, where abuse by other inmates is ignored and/or encouraged.
Assange is only an enemy if Freedom of the Press is an enemy.
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I think you need to read up on those rape charges. Bogus!
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He is being charged cracking Defense Department passwords.Being "an enemy of the US" is not an offence in the rest of the world, nor should it be. The breathtaking arrogance of utterances like yours will serve only to increase the number of your enemies.
He is being charged cracking Defense Department passwords.
You know that, how, exactly? Perhaps you should join his defense team.Well, he didn't do that, but burn him slowly nonetheless.
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