The 47-year-old Australian hacker sought asylum in Ecuador's London embassy in June 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden over sex assault allegations. The Wednesday sentencing comes one day ahead of a court hearing in London over a U.S. extradition request for Assange. The Department of Justice has charged him with conspiring to break into a Pentagon computer system to reveal government secrets. | |
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