Judge sentences Assange to 50 weeks

[struggle4progress]

May 1, 20197:59 AM ET
SASHA INGBER

... Judge Deborah Taylor said Assange's time in the embassy had cost British taxpayers the equivalent of nearly $21 million, and that he had sought asylum in a "deliberate attempt to delay justice."

Assange offered a written apology in court, claiming that his actions were a response to terrifying circumstances. He said he had been effectively imprisoned in the embassy; two doctors also provided medical evidence of the mental and physical effects of being confined.

The judge was not swayed by the arguments. "You were not living under prison conditions, and you could have left at any time to face due process with the rights and protections which the legal system in this country provides," she said ...

https://www.npr.org/2019/05/01/718945707/british-judge-sentences-julian-assange-to-50-weeks-in-prison

[Chin music]

1. So, less than a year. People who run out of walmart w a tv do a year, 52 weeks.

He was given a gift,

[struggle4progress]

3. I think jumping bail in the UK carries at most a year

[Baconator]

5. He got the max...

[ProudLib72]

2. "The Ecuadorian embassy stopped putting a chocolate on my pillow during turn down service

after only five years! I suffered through Hell!"

[Azathoth]

4. He better enjoy it, because his next stop is gonna be ADX Florence nt