Earlier, the judge made a ruling banning the use of Twitter to give a blow-by-blow account of Thursdays proceedings.

　　Mr Assange has received the backing of a number of high-profile supporters, including human rights campaigners Jemima Khan and Bianca Jagger, and film director Ken Loach.

　　Wikileaks has published hundreds of sensitive American diplomatic cables, details of which have appeared in the Guardian in the UK and several other newspapers around the world.

　　He has been criticised in the US, where former Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin has said he should be hunted down like the al-Qaeda leadership.

　　Mr Assange argues the allegations against him are politically motivated and designed to take attention away from the material appearing on Wikileaks.

　　We have seen in the week I have been away that my team is robust, support for them is strong and we were fortunate to have been able to keep publishing, in a very efficiently successful manner, even though I was taken out briefly, he said.

　　That does not underestimate the risks faced by all of us, but it does show the resilience of the organisation, that it can withstand decapitation attacks.

　　Mr Assange is accused of having unprotected sex with a woman, identified only as Miss A, when she insisted he use a condom.

　　He is also accused of having unprotected sex with another woman, Miss W, while she was asleep.

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