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- The UN working group on arbitrary detention (WGAD) has said that the 50-week jail sentence given to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is disproportionate. Further, it has slammed the UK government for breaching his human rights.
- Julian Assange has been sentenced to 50 weeks in jail for violating bail conditions in 2012 when he sought political asylum in the London’s Ecuadorian Embassy.
- This sentence comes ahead of a hearing due to take place in the UK Court as part of efforts to extradite him to the U.S. The USA wants his extradition and trial him over charges of computer hacking and espionage.
- Julian Assange is a controversial figure who founded anti-secrecy organization Wikileaks in 2006.Wikileaks aims at obtaining and publishing confidential documents and images.
- The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention is a body of independent human rights experts that investigate cases of arbitrary arrest and detention. It was established in 1991.
- Arbitrary arrest and detention is the imprisonment or detainment of an individual, by a State, without respect for due process



