Julian Assange walks free from the High Court and tells media he will "continue my work and continue to protest my innocence."
Speaking on the steps of the High Court to dozens of journalists, Mr Assange said: "It's great to feel the fresh air of London again."
He went on to thank "all the people around the world who had faith" in him, his lawyers for putting up a "brave and ultimately successful fight", members of the press and the British justice system.
"If justice is not always an outcome, at least it is not dead yet," he added.
Mr Assange had spent the past eight nights in prison. He told the press he had been kept in solitary confinement in the depths of a Victorian prison.
He will now stay at a manor home on the Norfolk-Suffolk border owned by Vaughan Smith, journalist and owner of the Frontline Club in London.
His supporters have helped to put up bail totalling £240,000 (€283,000, $374,000). Mr Assange will also have to wear a security tag.
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