Julian Assange, the founder and head of Wikileaks, has successfully challenged last week’s refusal to grant bail in his extradition case. He will be freed with conditions, unless Swedish prosecutors appeal the ruling. And, in an appropriate nod to the internet age, the judge granted two people the right to tweet from the court.
The tweeters (definition: users of Twitter, a social website which allows people to post 140 character messages to people who chose to follow them) are Alexi Mostrous, a Times special correspondent, and Heather Brook, a writer. Mostrous tweeted at 14:30:
