Sydney peace medal. In the estimation of the Sydney Peace Foundation, Australian WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange stands alongside the Dalai Lama and Nelson Mandela. As he outrages and embarrasses world leaders by leaking secret US diplomatic cables - and continues to face down allegations of sex offences - Mr Assange has been chosen by the foundation to receive a rare gold medal for peace with justice. The honour, previously given only to the Dalai Lama, Mr Mandela and Japanese lay Buddhist leader Daisaku Ikeda in the foundation's 14-year history, has been bestowed for Mr Assange's "exceptional courage and initiative in pursuit of human rights". Foundation director Stuart Rees said today the Australian's work had challenged the old order of power in politics and journalism.
Advertisement "Peace from our point of view is really about justice, fairness and the attainment of human rights," Professor Rees said. The gold medal is distinct from the annual Sydney Peace Prize awarded by the foundation. 02-02 Julian Assange awarded Sydney Peace Medal. WL Central | WikiLeaks news, analysis and action. Columbia j-school staff. Romenesko Misc. Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism faculty and officers tell President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder that “while we hold varying opinions of Wikileaks’ methods and decisions, we all believe that in publishing diplomatic cables Wikileaks is engaging in journalistic activity protected by the First Amendment” and that “as a historical matter, government overreaction to publication of leaked material in the press has always been more damaging to American democracy than the leaks themselves.”
President Barack Obama The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20500 Attorney General Eric Holder U.S. Department of Justice 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20530-0001 December 13, 2010 Dear Mr. Journalists have a responsibility to exercise careful news judgment when classified documents are involved, including assessing whether a document is legitimately confidential and whether there may be harm from its publication. Respectfully, WikiLeaks support. Society of Professional Journalists. SPJ NewsLatest SPJ News | RSS SPJ statement on ethical journalism in response to latest WikiLeaks release For Immediate Release: Contacts:Hagit Limor, SPJ President, (513) 852-4012,hlimor@spj.org Andrew M. Scott, SPJ Communications Coordinator, (317) 927-8000 ext. 215,ascott@spj.org INDIANAPOLIS – The Society of Professional Journalists is weighing in on the diplomatic, national security and journalistic fallout caused by WikiLeaks’ release of U.S.
State Department cables. What has become clear is that forming a single opinion about the actions of WikiLeaks, the need for information, and balancing the public’s right to know with protecting national security is exceedingly difficult. “It's not about who does the publishing.” Read SPJ President Hagit Limor’s full response to the WikiLeaks issue. Whether WikiLeaks acted responsibly, ethically or in the public interest is debatable, as our own internal discussions have shown. On the question of “Is WikiLeaks journalism?” Urges U.S. not to prosecute Assange. December 17, 2010 Barack Obama President of the United States The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20500Via facsimile: +1 202-456-2461 Eric H.
Holder Jr. Attorney General U.S. Dear President Obama and Attorney General Holder: We write because of deep concern about reports that you are considering the prosecution of WikiLeaks and Julian Assange for publishing classified cables and other documents. On Thursday, the House Judiciary Committee held hearings on the implications of prosecuting Assange under the 1917 Espionage Act. As CPJ seeks to defend freedom of expression and the safety and rights of journalists around the world, we find that by far the largest share of imprisoned journalists are jailed on antistate charges, including publishing information that governments deem secret.
Sincerely, Paul E. Joel SimonExecutive Director. Wiki-ad. WL Central. We, among many law abiding citizens of the world deplore and condemn, as applicable, your utterances and writings calling for the extra judicial ie unlawful: kidnapping/assassination/murder/physical harm of Julian Assange, his supporters, Wikileaks workers or members of Assange's family. We remind you of the laws in your country and others against incitement, inter alia: Common law: In English criminal law, incitement was an anticipatory common law offence and was the act of persuading, encouraging, instigating, pressuring, or threatening so as to cause another to commit a crime....The inciter must intend the others to engage in the behaviour constituting the offence, including any consequences which may result, and must know or believe (or possibly suspect) that those others will have the relevant mens rea.
" (2) Canada464. . (4)USA There is no automatic 1st Amendment protection perBrandenburg v. We ask you respectfully, to contemplate this writing of Mahatma Gandhi: EL PAÍS. 1. The leak and its consequences. When WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange called my cellphone on a Friday afternoon in November, I could barely hear him. The conversation, held amid the usual tumult of Rome's airport on a weekend, was strangely short. Assange talked slowly, making sure to pronounce each word carefully, his deep, almost baritone voice, reducing itself almost to a whisper at the end of each sentence. A few moments before the conversation, I had noticed how the Italian police seemed particularly interested in the little luggage that I was carrying, and that as the phone had rung, they were examining the cloth that I had used to wipe the screen of my iPad. The powerful machinery of the state is designed to suppress the flow of truth and keep secrets secret It may yet emerge that the US Embassy in Madrid broke the law in pursuing its interests 2. 3.
Tens of thousands of soldiers are fighting a war in Afghanistan that their respective leaders know is not winnable. 4. 5. 6. 7. PEN international. Every year, PEN International hosts a number of events around the world promoting freedom of expression and celebrating literature in a variety of ways. PEN Centres stage events such as literary festivals large and small, storytelling sessions with families and children, book clubs and everything in between. One important occasion to mark is the annual Day of the Imprisoned Writer, 15 November, which gives the entire PEN community a chance to celebrate our work across the world as well as drawing attention to the ongoing persecution faced by many writers today. 8 May 2013 Hay Festival Beirut 8 May 2013 Writers for Peace Conference 14 May 2013 10th International PEN Writers in Prison Committee Conference 23 May 2013 Hay Festival Wales 9 Sep 2013 The 79th PEN International Congress 23 Nov 2013 International Day to End Impunity.
Press freedom award Romania. În orele în care planeta se rotește între 2010 și 2011, ne întoarcem spre gestul de înaltă conştiinţă a meseriei şi recuperare a demnităţii umane al organizaţiei WikiLeaks, cea care a inițiat publicarea documentelor autentice lămurind atitudinea duplicitară a unor state democratice. Julian Assange a revoluționat presa de pe Internet și a dat documentelor o proprietate planetară. Cetățeanul anonim de pe glob a fost făcut ca niciodată părtaș la decizii politice, militare și administrative. Asta a și făcut ca regina presei europene, ziarul Le Monde, să-l proclame Omul Anului! Cotidianul.ro se raliază ziarului francez și altor publicații din diferite țări care văd în demersul lui Julian Assange o performanță profesională și un gest de mare nobleţe.
Pentru a sublinia uriaşele servicii aduse libertății de exprimare și valorilor democratice, am inițiat Diploma de Onoare "Dacia liberă". Noi cei care am trăit dincoace de Cortina de Fier știm ce înseamnă botnița pusă presei! Cotidianul.ro. Rosenberg. [NOTE: our Recent Press Coverage page has links to media coverage spawned by this blog, including Robert's interviews on Democracy Now! , KBOO Radio, and RTTV (Russian news).]--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rumors are swirling that the United States is preparing to indict Wikileaks leader Julian Assange for conspiring to violate the Espionage Act of 1917.
I view the Espionage Act of 1917 as a lifelong nemesis. The 1917 Act has a notorious history. Many who attacked the law noted that the framers of the Constitution had specifically limited what constituted treason by writing it into the Constituton: “Treason against the United States shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort” (Article III, section 3). It appears obvious that the Espionage Act is unconstitutional because it does exactly what the Constitution prohibits.
P. Kemp (open letter) Now that Julian Assange is free on bail, it is perhaps time to lighten up a little. Marty Hari was overwhelmed and it was 3rd March 2084. The man from had leaked the data from exposing a horrible secret two days previously. All top US officials and politicians had exempted themselves from obeying CyberTrojan law. US authorities, highly embarrassed, were baying for his blood while he was sanitising the Swedish data in his London apartment and watching holographic TV around his computer. Lieutnant Scheisserkopf at Pentagon Newspeak was organising parades of military solidarity and giving daily briefings on the threats to US national security posed by Dikkileaks, saying: Marty found something else not to his liking, at all. To avoid thinking of his worst nightmare come true, he reflected on world history from the early 21st century.
UN. UN Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protectionthe Right to Freedom of Opinion and Expression Inter-American Commission on Human RightsSpecial Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression Joint Statement On Wikileaks December 21, 2010 – In light of ongoing developments related to the release of diplomatic cables by the organization Wikileaks, and the publication of information contained in those cables by mainstream news organizations, the United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Opinion and Expression and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression see fit to recall a number of international legal principles.
The rapporteurs call upon States and other relevant actors to keep these principles in mind when responding to the aforementioned developments. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Catalina Botero MarinoInter-American Commission on Human Rights Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression. RSF. Reporters Without Borders condemns the blocking, cyber-attacks and political pressure being directed at cablegate.wikileaks.org, the website dedicated to the US diplomatic cables. The organization is also concerned by some of the extreme comments made by American authorities concerning WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange. Earlier this week, after the publishing several hundred of the 250.000 cables it says it has in its possession, WikiLeaks had to move its site from its servers in Sweden to servers in the United States controlled by online retailer Amazon.
Amazon quickly came under pressure to stop hosting WikiLeaks from the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and its chairman, Sen. Joe Lieberman, in particular. After being ousted from Amazon, WikiLeaks found a refuge for part of its content with the French Internet company OVH. This is the first time we have seen an attempt at the international community level to censor a website dedicated to the principle of transparency.