Assange free on bail
The founder of whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, has been set free on bail.
The 39-year-old was granted conditional bail on Tuesday but prosecutors objected.
He is fighting extradition to Sweden over sex assault allegations made by two women. He denies any wrongdoing.
Mr Justice Ouseley ordered Mr Assange be released on payment of £240,000 in cash and sureties and on condition he resides at an address in East Anglia.
He will be staying at a manor home on the Norfolk-Suffolk border owned by Vaughan Smith, journalist and owner of the Frontline Club in London.
Mr Assange's solicitor, Mark Stephens, said after the court appearance the bail appeal was part of a "continuing vendetta by the Swedes".
But the question of who decided to appeal against the granting of bail remains cloaked in contradiction.
A CPS spokesman said on Thursday: "The Crown Prosecution Service acts as agent for the Swedish government in the Assange case. The Swedish Director of Prosecutions this morning confirmed that she fully supported the appeal."
But earlier Nils Rekke, from the Swedish Prosecutor's Office, claimed it was "a purely British decision".
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