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The Working Group viewed matters differently, as its second period of deprivation of liberty was the 550 days when Mr Assange was on bail. This is described as ‘a prolonged period of house arrest [during which] Mr Assange had been subjected to various forms of harsh restriction, including monitoring by an electronic tag, an obligation to report to the police every day and a bar on being outside his place of residence at night..’

One might consider that the very fact that Mr place of buy phone number list residence during the day meant that he was not under ‘house arrest’ but rather simply subjected to a curfew (and that the ‘harshness’ of his bail conditions were justified by the risk that Mr Assange might abscond and, indeed, did not prevent him from doing so). In his individual dissenting opinion, Mr Tochilovsky pointed out that previously the Working Group had considered that when a person is allowed to leave his place of assigned residence the situation is one of restriction rather than deprivation of liberty, and consequently outwith the Working Group’s competence.

And as for the length of time, it should be recalled that it was during this period that Mr Assange was challenging the European Arrest Warrant all the way up to the UK Supreme Court. The only comment on this issue made by the Working Group is ‘to query what has prohibited the unfolding of judicial management of any kind in a reasonable manner from occurring for such extended period of time.’