Assange to be released
Prosecution appeal fails
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A High Court judge has rejected a call to keep Julian Assange in jail while the courts consider Sweden's extradition request.
The Wikileaks founder, wanted in Sweden for questioning in relation to alleged sex crimes, was granted bail on Tuesday, but was held in prison pending today's appeal by the Crown Prosecution Service.
He will now be freed later today.
Assange's supporters will pay the court a £200,000 security deposit, and £40,000 in sureties. He will live in Suffolk at the home of Vaughan Smith, a journalist who founded the Frontline Club, wear an electronic tag, and report daily to the local police station.
The next hearing is scheduled for 11 January. Assange denies the allegations and his lawyers will oppose extradition. ®
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Sorry to go off topic, but I have to pick s.pam up on this....
s. pam: "we allow dole sucking mutant illegal immigrants more rights, and free money"
No we don't. Even legal immigrants usually have "NO RECOURSE TO PUBLIC FUNDS". You can't be illegal and get "free money" - you get precisely nothing. If you mean asylum seekers, then they are not allowed to work whilst their claims are processed so are given usually pretty meagre benefits, no matter what your tabloid of choice might tell you. As for rights, even hard-working fully legal immigrants are often not allowed visits from overseas relatives in case they overstay - I know as I'm struggling to get my brother-in-law here for a holiday now - it's not easy! Know what you're talking about before spouting off.
Sorry for the off-topic rant folks but I hate how this kind of lazy prejudice gets repeated and reinforced and taken as absolute fact.
S. pam, you have devalued an otherwise valid point about Julian Assange with your fact-free off-topic tabloid bigotry.
Anyway about the Assange case....
Reckon he'd be safer where he was.
Reckon he'd be safer where he was.
Between Russia, China, Sweden and the US out gunning for him, he better have well experienced minders.
It's moments like this you realize how fragile democracy is.
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