journalists from 40 countries unite to assist in support of Wikileaks and Julian Assange
celebrities and investigative journalists in a petition Julian Assange - Solidarity for the attacked and persecuted journalists - "Julian Assange provided excellent contribution to transparency and responsibility - the public has a right Information on "
By Andreas Klamm-Sabaot
New York / London / Berlin. 6. November 2010. published after the Wikileaks Coordinator Julian Assange confidential military documents to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq is attacked heavily all this and have been persecuted. Julian Assange hoping for political asylum in neutral Switzerland. The U.S. authorities are looking for the journalist who was with his work for Wikileaks known worldwide. Even some journalists' associations had attacked Julian Assange for publishing documents, which also will be informed about possible meeting of war crimes. To Julian Assange it was quiet. The Journal for Julian Assange now appears with an initiative of more than 140 journalists from 40 countries to address. Journalists from more than 40 different nations at the weekend published a petition in support of Julian Assange at http://globalinvestigativejournalism.org .
the initial signatories are numerous well-known respected and prominent investigative journalist, who now call for solidarity and support for Julian Assange and Wikileaks.
journalists from all regions of the world have united to the Whistle Blower organization Wikileaks and its founder, Julian Assange to support, explain some of the journalists that it is a unique source and an "outstanding contribution to transparency and accountability to the wars has done in Iraq and Afghanistan. "
The journalists, many of the supporters of prominent investigative reporter, come from many different countries as in the case of Russia, Namibia (Africa), Israel, Indonesia, from the states of the European Union and North America. The journalists that are connected together in networks, investigative, have decided to give the public an explanation, after this an increasing campaign of attacks and not just observe criticism of Julian Assange and Wikileaks could. The petition can be directly at the addresses http://globalinvestigativejournalism.org or http://globalinvestigativejournalism.org/content/journalists-join-to-support-wikileaks via email: WikileaksStatement@gmail.com retrieved and drawn on be.
The petition and the statement of the international petition signed by journalists from 40 countries, says the following:
DECLARATION OF JOURNALISTS TO THE ATTACKS ON WikiLeaks
Julian Assange, founder of the Whistle Blower organization Wikileaks, was harshly criticized and attacked for his part in gaps of military documents to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq (also known as "The Diaries of War"). He was accused of publishing confidential military information irresponsibly, endangering the lives of people in the Miltiär published reports and also of espionage accused. Some media organizations have joined this criticism.
We, journalists and journalists' organizations from many countries, hereby express our support for Julian Assange and Wikileaks. We believe Julian Assange has made an outstanding contribution to transparency and responsibility for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Issues such as transparency and responsibilities were very much constrained by the secrecy of the government and the control of the media. He was attacked withheld for publication of information that had not at any time the public may be.
We believe Wikileaks had the right publishing confidential military documents, because this has been done in the interest of the public to find out what happened. The documents show the evidence that the government of the United States of America misled the public on activities in Iraq and Afghanistan and that perhaps war crimes were committed.
Wikileaks has made the lives of people in danger? There was a legitimate criticism of Wikileaks to documents on Afghanistan in terms of their security clearance, which did not inform sufficiently about the names of possible informants in the publications. Fortunately, there is no evidence as to that a person as a result of that was injured or killed. We note that Wikileaks has learned from those mistakes and a lot of careful work in the publication of documents on Iraq.
In the totality of the evidence-based reports of Wikileaks through a variety of abuses and crimes of far greater importance as a critique of an inadequate editing.
Julian Assange was personally under pressure because of his involvement in relation to the gaps in the Miltiär reports and looked attacks of accusations of espionage exposed. Mr. Assanage is not guilty of a suspicion of espionage than any other journalist or Whistle Blower. The accusation is a terrible Vorveruteilung, which is opposed to an open government.
If the publication of documents of Whistle Blowers would be equated with espionage, then this means that potentially all journalists of such a crime could be guilty. Julian Assange deserved in the face of attacks, our support and encouragement.
Since the deployment in 2006, Wikileaks is for journalists from around the world, an extraordinary means for further transparency, while it is reduced from governments. Although Wikileaks is not a part of the media and not pretending to be a part of the media, not his mission of informing the public and reducing unjustified secrecy interests, supports our work. As a grateful beneficiary of the work of Wikileaks and Julian Assange, we stand together to support this at this time.
The petition was published on the site of http://globalinvestigativejournalism.org so Simultaneous other journalists and support the declaration.
contact for further and more detailed information:
Gavin MacFadyen (United Kingdom / Great Britain)
Gmacfadyen (at) me.com, cell +44 (0) 774 030 4570
Mark Lee Hunter (France)
MarkLeeHunter (at) gmail.com, portable +33 (0) 6 27 81 00 87
Nicky Hager (New Zealand)
nicky (at) paradise.net.nz, +64 4 3845074
Lucy Komisar (United States of America, USA)
LK (at) lucykomisar.com, +001 212929-1610
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