One year in jail for Julian Assange | He condemned her …

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was sentenced to nearly a year in prison in the UK for violating his parole. In 2012, he fled to the Embbady of Ecuador in London to avoid being extradited to Sweden in a badual badault case. which was then archived. Nearly a month after being expelled from the diplomatic siege by Lenin Moreno, a London Southwark court sentenced him to 50 weeks in jail, taking into account the time already spent in jail for this crime. punishable by one year 's imprisonment. the recent arrest. The US-backed extradition court process, which will begin to be defined tomorrow, is still ongoing.

"It is hard to imagine a more serious example of this crime," said Judge Deborah Taylor today at the hearing, in front of Assange. In announcing his resolution, the judge added that "by hiding in the embbady" on June 19, 2012, Assange had "deliberately distanced himself from justice while remaining in the United Kingdom. United".

"I did what I thought was best," baderted Assange in a letter of repentance read by his lawyer, who badured that he had decided to stay at the headquarters of the company. Ecuador for "the threats against him from the United States" and that they "concealed everything".

It is however only the first chapter of the legal battle that awaits the Australian, that the United States is required to judge for "hacking", on the sole basis of an alleged failed attempt to decrypt the key d a computer from the Ministry of Defense. . Assange will appear Thursday for this extradition request, which his legal team will use in a process that can last up to two years.

One of the complaints in Sweden for which he was locked up at the London embbady planned in 2015 and the other abandoned in 2017 due to the impossibility of judging Assange, to whom a former president of the Ecuador, Rafael Correa, has granted diplomatic protection. However, after her arrest on April 11, after Moreno decided to withdraw her asylum and her Ecuadorian nationality, one of the Swedish plaintiffs requested that her case be reopened.

British lawyer Jennifer Robinson recently said that Assange was willing to cooperate with the Swedish authorities if they resumed the investigation.

Shortly after, more than 70 British MPs signed a letter asking London to "do everything possible" to allow its transport to Sweden, while the father of Assange asked Sydney that his son, whose His physical appearance left him in shock, either extradited. in Australia.

As early as 2012, Assange had declared wanting to escape extradition to Sweden so as not to end up in the United States, where his defenders fear that he would be sentenced to life imprisonment or even to the trouble capital for treason. Assange fears that the United States, which has set the prime target of keeping Assange under arrest through his extradition request, may add new charges once the editor and cyber -activist will be expelled from Britain.