Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has been sentenced to 50 weeks' jail for absconding while on bail, when he fled to the Ecuadorian embassy in London in 2012.
Assange was granted asylum by Ecuador after the UK Supreme Court upheld a ruling that he should be extradited to Sweden over a sexual assault case that has since been dropped. He has denied the allegation.
He claimed he was seeking political asylum because Sweden's international arrest warrant would see him eventually extradited to the United States.
After six years holed up inside the embassy, Assange was arrested and dragged out to a waiting police van on April 11.
Ecuador's President Lenin Moreno said the country had withdrawn its offer of asylum and accused Assange of harassing embassy staff.
The next day, he was found guilty of breaching his bail at Westminster Magistrates' Court.
Judge Michael Snow said Assange's claim that he had breached his bail conditions because he could not expect a fair hearing in the UK was "laughable".
"His behaviour is that of a narcissist who cannot get past his own self-interest," Justice Snow said in his judgment.
Assange faces extradition hearing
On Thursday, Assange will again appear in court by video link as the US attempts to extradite him.
Assange is charged with conspiring with former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning to gain access to classified databases.
In 2010, WikiLeaks released hundreds of thousands of US military reports about the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and US diplomatic communications.
The US Justice Department described it as "one of the largest compromises of classified information in the history of the United States".
Assange faces up to five years in US prison if convicted. Assange's lawyers said they would fight the extradition attempt.
More to come.
