A British court on Wednesday sentenced WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to 50 weeks in jail for skipping bail in 2012, when he sought refuge at Ecuador's Embassy in London.
A Southwark crown court issued the sentence Wednesday. Judge Deborah Taylor said he cost British taxpayers 16 million pounds while he hid away at the embassy for seven years.
A Westminster magistrates' court last month found Assange guilty of violating Britain's Bail Act, just days after police arrested him at the Ecuadorian Embassy, where he'd been expelled and his asylum revoked.