Sorry, but I am not joyful at this news
Of course instant deportation would have been worse, but a man in poor health and mentally fragile is still being held in inhuman conditions designed eventually to kill him. Even if released, he will be a shell of the person he once was. And on top of that, these three "assurances" can be codged up in minutes by the DOJ who know they don't have to abide by them once they have Assange in their clutches. I see this ruling as a cowardly alibi to pretend justice is being served and they are treating him fairly (British justice, the Best in the World!), when in truth they are grovelling to their masters and prolonging the agony to the day when everyone knows he will be extradited -- or found dead in his cell in Belmarsh. It's immaterial to them which of these happens, and when it happens, so long as one of them does.
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