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WikiLeaks wins case against Visa; ‘Pay $204k per month if blockade not lifted’
Iceland’s Supreme Court has ruled that Valitor (formerly Visa Iceland) must pay WikiLeaks $204,900 per month or $2,494,604 per year in fines if it continues to blockade the whistle-blowing site. The court upheld the decision that Valitor had unlawfully terminated its contract with WikiLeaks’ donation processor, DataCell. “Today’s decision marked the most important victory to [...]
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WikiLeaks releases 1.7m US diplomatic records
Whistleblowing website WikiLeaks has published more than 1.7 million United States records covering diplomatic or intelligence reports on every country in the world. Much of the work was carried out by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange during his time in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, where he has been staying since last summer. He sought refuge [...]
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Freudian slips and neocolonialism
By Parvaiz Bukhari When democracy is so hollowed out, that it is rendered incapable of letting the people evolve answers to issues facing a nation, the state apparatus is pushed to practice what many call neocolonialism, or else repression. However, most of the time the phenomenon remains obfuscated in the din of democratist pronouncements that [...]
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“What Julian Assange does with WikiLeaks is morally, ethically and legally right”
Professor blog proudly presents a new great contribution by Jennifer Robinson, the acclaimed media and human rights lawyer. She also is a legal adviser of WikiLeaks founder – editor and journalist Julian Assange. Jennifer Robinson participated in these days in the forum at the University of Technology in Sydney “Don’t shoot the messenger: WikiLeaks, Assange [...]
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ACCESS DENIED
By Caelainn Hogan In the international media, the murder of Pakistani journalist Saleem Shahzad raised crucial concerns about the intimidation and targeting of journalists and political activists by the ISI in Pakistan. However, the detention and deportation of human rights advocate Gautam Navlakha from Kashmir has barely been mentioned. As Vaclav Havel argues, it is [...]
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Human Rights Violations In Kashmir: Justice delayed is justice denied
By Fahad Shah Even though United Nations rapporteur on human rights violations Margaret Sekaggya visited Kashmir on January 19, India has failed to deliver justice to human rights violation victims in the Kashmir valley since the armed rebellion erupted twenty years ago. The special rapporteur to assess the condition of ‘human rights defenders’ in the [...]
Wikileaks: India ‘tortured’ Kashmir prisoners
[Syndicated from: BBC South Asia] The International Committee of the Red Cross sent evidence to US diplomats about widespread torture by Indian security forces in Kashmir, according to cables obtained by Wikileaks. Visits to detention centres in the region in 2002-04 revealed cases of beatings, electric shocks, sexual abuse and other types of ill-treatment. The [...]
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