WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is set to be sentenced for jumping British bail seven years ago and holing up in the Ecuadorian embassy.
Assange faces a maximum sentence of a year in prison when heis sentenced Wednesday at London’s Southwark Crown Court.
A judge at an earlier hearing said the 47-year-old hacker’soffense “merits the maximum sentence.”
The Australian secret-spiller sought asylum in the SouthAmerican country’s London embassy in June 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden,where he was wanted for questioning over rape and sexual assault allegations.
He faces a separate legal fight against a US extraditionrequest. American authorities have charged him with conspiring to break into aPentagon computer system.
Assange was arrested last month after Ecuador revoked hispolitical asylum.