The extradition case of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was adjourned until May 30 for a procedural hearing, and a more substantive hearing was planned for June 12, Reuters reported on Thursday. 

Julian Assange told a London court on Thursday that he does not want to be extradited to the U.S. to face trial for one of the largest compromises of classified information in history, claiming his work had protected “many people.”

He was sentenced on Wednesday to 50 weeks in jail for skipping bail.

Assange made international headlines in early 2010 when WikiLeaks published a classified U.S. military video showing a 2007 attack by Apache helicopters in Baghdad that killed a dozen people, including two Reuters news staff.

The United States has requested the extradition of Assange, who was dragged from the Ecuadorean embassy in London on April 11, and has charged him with conspiracy to commit computer intrusion which carries a maximum penalty of five years.

Julian Assange sentenced to 50 weeks in jail for skipping bail

Assange was sentenced to 50 weeks in prison by a British court on Wednesday for skipping bail when he holed up in Ecuador's London embassy for seven years until police dragged him out last month.

Assange sought refuge in the embassy in June 2012 to avoid an extradition order to Sweden over an allegation of rape, which he denied.

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