[znebby]

I read it is only 5 years [1].

In which case voluntarily staying in the Ecuadorian embassy for 6 years seems to be a miscalculation.

(At least, staying beyond the point that the Swedish rape charges were dropped).

1: https://www.justice.gov/usao-edva/pr/wikileaks-founder-charg...

[mrguyorama]

I believe his fear was being locked up in gitmo. I think it was a valid fear.

[JdeBP]

18 USC 1080(c)(1)(A) says ten years.