Freed Assange gives thanks

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange celebrates as he prepares to address the media outside the High Court in central London / AFP Source: AFP

WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange thanked his supporters and said it was great to breathe fresh air again after a British court ordered his release from jail. 

Speaking outside London High Court, Mr Assange, 39, paid tribute to "all the people around the world who have had faith in me."
He also thanked: "members of the press who are not all taken in."
Mr Assange, who is fighting deportation to Sweden, where he faces sexual assault charges, said of the British justice system: "If justice is not always an outcome, it is at least not dead yet."
He added: "I hope to continue my work and continue to protest my innocence in this matter."