The High Court in London granted bail on Thursday to Julian Assange, the founder of the antisecrecy group WikiLeaks, while he fights extradition to Sweden on a warrant connected with alleged sex offenses....
>>>The High Court in London granted bail on Thursday to Julian Assange, the founder of the antisecrecy group WikiLeaks, while he fights extradition to Sweden on a warrant connected with alleged sex offenses.
But Judge Duncan Ounsley added more restrictive bail conditions to those imposed by a lower court two days ago, when the prosecutors filed an appeal and said Mr. Assange was a flight risk.
It was not immediately clear when he would be released from jail. Mr. Assange’s British lawyer, Mark Stephens, told reporters that if the formalities relating to his client’s release were not completed within the next few hours, Mr. Assange would return to Wandsworth prison in south-west London and be freed from there later.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/17/world/europe/17assange.html
