[toyg]

Over the course of these hearings, the "live link" has had a habit of breaking up or otherwise become unavailable at short notice, as Craig Murray has reported.

This might be entirely coincidental, but regardless, I can see why observers would find it not adequate.

[PJDK]

I'm sure that's annoying, but given the nature of what is being discussed it's hard to come up with a scenario where that has a serious impact on the observation of justice. Not least because if the live feed goes down at the same time as something bad happens that would give an enormous amount of ammunition to Assange's defence team.

[toyg]

“Something bad” in this context is stuff like the judge reading pre-written decisions rather than elaborating them on the spot. Without independent observers, there is no “ammunition” to be had, because it’s simply one’s word vs the authorities’.

As someone else mentioned, this is the sort of thing that, when it happens in “bad” countries, we often call with certain choice words.