Julian Assange appeared via videolink in court, where a lawyer for the US authorities briefly set out his alleged involvement in the release of classified documents.
LONDON - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange told a court on Thursday he would oppose extradition to the United States as the legal process began in London, a day after he was jailed for breaching his bail conditions in a former case.
The Australian was jailed on Wednesday for 50 weeks for breaking his bail conditions in 2012, when he fled to Ecuador's London embassy to avoid extradition to Sweden. He was dragged out of the embassy and arrested on 11 April after Quito gave him up. The Swedish claims had been dropped, but he was later that day convicted of skipping bail.The US indictment charges him with "conspiracy" for working with former US Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning to crack a password stored on Department of Defence computers in March 2010.
"I did what I thought at the time was the best or perhaps the only thing that I could have done," he said, adding: "I apologise unreservedly."
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