'Disproportionate' Assange UK bail sentence troubles UN experts
Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange salutes his supporters from inside a prison van as he leaves Southwark Crown Court in London, Britain, on May 1, 2019. Assange has been sentenced to 50 weeks in prison for breaching bail conditions. – EPA pic, May 3, 2019.
THE 50-week jail sentence given to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for breaching a British court’s bail conditions seven years ago is “disproportionate,” the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention said today Assange took refuge in Ecuador’s London embassy in 2012 after a British judge ordered his extradition to face Swedish allegations of sexual assault and rape, which he strongly denied.
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