The Australian whistleblower, who was arrested on 11 April after Ecuador gave him up, raised a clenched fist as he arrived in a prison van at Southwark Crown Court.
LONDON - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will be sentenced Wednesday for breaching a British court order seven years ago when he took refuge in Ecuador's London embassy to avoid extradition to Sweden.
He claimed the allegations were a pretext to transfer him to the United States, where he feared prosecution over the release by WikiLeaks of millions of classified documents.However, the 47-year-old is facing a US extradition request, which was only revealed following his dramatic arrest, when he was dragged shouting from the embassy by police.Assange appeared in court within hours of his arrest, and a judge found him guilty of breaching his bail conditions.
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. The charge has raised serious concerns among organisations advocating free speech, including politicians such as British opposition Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.
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