Newsdeck: WikiLeaks's Assange Tells Court He Won't `Surrender to America' By Bloomberg
LONDON, ENGLAND - MAY 01: Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange leaves Southwark Crown Court in a security van after being sentenced on May 1, 2019 in London, England. Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange, 47, was sentenced to 50 weeks in prison for breaching his bail conditions when he took refuge in the Ecuadorian Embassy in 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden over sexual assault allegations, charges he denies.
“I do not wish to surrender to America for doing journalism, which has won many awards and affected many people,” Assange said. It’s the second court appearance in less than 48 hours for Assange, who was sentenced Wednesday to almost a year in jail for skipping bail in another extradition case from accusations in Sweden.
The indictment didn’t address a more recent episode involving Assange’s WikiLeaks — its publication of waves of emails that embarrassed Democrats during the 2016 presidential election, a trove that U.S. prosecutors have said were stolen during a Russian intelligence operation.
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