WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been released on bail following a week of legal drama over his exile.
The 39-year-old Australian is fighting moves to take him to Sweden, where he faces sex-crimes allegations connected to a visit there over the summer.
He handed himself in to British police last week but has been fighting for bail since.
Assange told journalists assembled outside of London's High Court that he was delighted to taste the fresh air and would continue to protest his innocence.
Assange is now expected to head to a British country mansion where he will have to observe a curfew and wear a monitoring device.
His incarceration has not ended the flow of classified American diplomatic cables, mostly between American diplomats abroad and the State Department in Washington. Earlier, WikiLeaks published confidential American material relating to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The documents were made available to newspapers including The New York Times.
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