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WikiLeaks founder Voted Readers' Choice for TIME's Person of the Year 2010

Finally some good news for Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks. This afternoon he was released from custody on bail with strict conditions and earlier today he was crowned the readers' choice for TIME's Person of the Year 2010.

Assange was granted bail earlier today on the conditions that he surrenders his passport, has a curfew (from 10am-2pm and 10pm-2am), reports the the police station daily, and wears an electronic tag.A surety of surety of £240,000, was also requested.

The news were met by cheers both inside and outside the courtroom. However, Swedish prosecutors plan to launch an appeal against the decision to grant Assange bail. They have two hours to lodge an appeal. Assange will not be freed until that process is over at ca 17:45 today.

At least Assange won the prestigious Time Person Of The Year awards as voted by the people. He received the most votes in this year's poll, racking up an impressive 382,020 votes out of a total of 1,249,425, resulting in a clear majority as the runner-up, Recep Tayyip Ergodan the Prime Minister of Turkey received 148,383 less votes.

But Assange wasn't the winner in all as

But Assange wasn't the winner in all aspects - Lady Gaga trounced him on Facebook, receiving 65,417 "likes" on Facebook to Assange's 45,643.

Here is the Top 10 people as chosen by TIME readers.

    1.    Julian Assange
    2.    Recep Tayyip Ergodan
    3.    Lady Gaga
    4.    Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert
    5.    Glenn Beck
    6.    Barack Obama
    7.    Steve Jobs
    8.    The Chilean Miners
    9.    The Unemployed American
    10.    Mark Zuckerberg

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