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Private Bradley Manning, a US soldier accused of passing classified material to the whistle blowing website WikiLeaks has consistently made it into the headlines, mostly in connection with his trial. But now his name is on a different list, that of over 200 nominees for the Nobel Peace Prize. Manning's nomination was put forward in the Icelandic Parliament by the parliamentary group, "The Movement".
Birgitta Yonsdottir, Icelandic MP, a member of the parliamentary group says...
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The High Court in London will soon decide whether Julian Assange is to be extradited to Sweden to face allegations of sexual misconduct. At the appeal hearing in July, Ben Emmerson, Queen's counsel for the defense, described the whole saga as "crazy." Sweden's chief prosecutor had dismissed the original arrest warrant, saying there was no case for Assange to answer.
Both the women involved said they had consented to have sex. On the facts alleged, no crime would have been committed...
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange appeared in London July 2 for an unusual conversation with Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek, moderated by Democracy Now’s Amy Goodman.
Assange is currently under house arrest in Norfolk, outside London, awaiting a July 12 appeals hearing on his pending extradition to Sweden for questioning on sexual misconduct allegations. He has not been charged with a crime in any country.
In this excerpt from Saturday’s discussion, Zizek and Assange respond...
Parodying the "priceless" MasterCard advertisements, WikiLeaks releases their latest promotional advertisement. MasterCard is one of four companies that suspended services to WikiLeaks making it difficult for the organization's supporters to donate funds in the aftermath of Julian Assange's arrest on alleged sexual assault charges.
WikiLeaks editor, Julian Assange, was awarded the Sydney Peace Prize gold medal for Peace with Justice at the Frontline Club on 10 May 2011.
Assange is now one of just four people to have been given the award. Nelson Mandela, the 14th Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso and a Japanese Buddhist leader Daisaku Ikeda are the only others to have received the medal in its fourteen year history.
Professor Stuart Rees, director of the Sydney Peace Foundation who addressed the audience at the awards ceremony...
A British judge has ruled that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange can be extradited to Sweden to face questioning on allegations of sexual crimes. Assange plans to appeal within ten days. His defence team had argued against the extradition, in part, by citing the potential he could wind up being extradited to the United States and prosecuted for publishing classified government documents, a crime that could result in the death penalty.
Deamocracy Now speaks to constitutional law attorney and...
