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Nobel Prize could protect WikiLeaks founder - Kremlin source
Published: 08 December, 2010, 16:25
Edited: 10 December, 2010, 13:53
A demonstrator wears a mask depicting the face of the WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange (AFP Photo / Carl de Souza)
TAGS: Russia, Protest, Politics, Human rights, Internet, Mass media, USA
Non-governmental organizations should consider nominating Julian Assange for a Nobel Prize, a source in the Russian presidential administration has said.
Public and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) “should think of how to help” the founder of the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks, the source said on Tuesday, as reported by Interfax news agency.
Later in the day, Russian president's press secretary said that the statement was a joke, but she did not disclose the source.
British police arrested Assange on Monday after he decided not to hide from international prosecution on Swedish sexual assault charges. Many believe the accusations are politically motivated.
The WikiLeaks website released over 250,000 cables from US embassies and consulates around the world in late November. Assange also sent secret US diplomatic documents to leading international media.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has said the documents “show all the cynicism of US foreign policy.” However, the exposed diplomatic cables will not affect relations between Moscow and Washington, he added.
In a recent interview with CNN’s Larry King, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin described the cables concerning Moscow and the work of the Russian leadership as “arrogant” and “unethical.”
Media also quoted a Russian diplomatic source as saying that the documents published by WikiLeaks “disclosed the lack of confidentiality of American diplomacy.”
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It would really be nice if people would pay attention to the news they release. wikileaks has not released 250,000 cables, they have released less than 1,000. saying otherwise makes opponents think they are doing this indiscriminately. Thanks to Glenn Greenwald for point this out.
Bestowing the Nobel Peace Prize on Julian Assange would be one way the Norwegians can atone for their horrendous mistake of judgement when the blessed Barak Hussein Obama with the award.
Obama has shown himself to be nothing more than a puppet of the Pentagon war generals who want a perpetual state of war to enrich themselves and their contractor pals.
A Nobel Peace Prize will not protect Assange from the vengeful neo-cons calling for his blood, but it will be an award well deserved, unlike the one given to Obama.
Curious that when the government looks at our e-mails or listens in on conversations, they justify the actions by saying, "If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear." The idea being that only guilty people mind having everything they do scrutinized.
I'd like to know when freedom of information became a crime. Are they going to start putting journalists in jail next when something is printed that they don't like? This is ridiculous. There is nothing that wikileaks has said that is untrue. They have done nothing illegal, just some things that the US doesn't like. What a joke.