The 50-week jail sentence given to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for breaching a British court’s bail conditions seven years ago is “disproportionate,” the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention said Friday.
The panel of rights experts “is deeply concerned about… the disproportionate sentence imposed on Mr Assange,” the group said in a statement, accusing Britain of extending “the arbitrary deprivation of liberty of Mr Assange.”
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