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WikiLeaks' Julian Assange faces sentencing over bail-jumping

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AP London
Last Updated : May 01 2019 | 2:55 PM IST

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 he is sentenced Wednesday at London's Southwark Crown Court.

A judge at an earlier hearing said the 47-year-old hacker's offense "merits the maximum sentence."

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First Published: May 01 2019 | 2:55 PM IST

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