Tuesday, 10 May 2011

Julian Assange being awarded Sydney Peace Prize Gold Medal


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The Sydney Peace Foundation has awarded its Gold Medal for peace with justice to WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange. The citation reads, 'For exceptional courage and initiative in pursuit of human rights'.
The Director of the Sydney Peace Foundation, Professor Stuart Rees, has stated 'Assange's work is in the Tom Paine Rights of Man and Daniel Ellsberg Pentagon Papers tradition- challenging the old order of power in politics and in journalism. Assange has championed people's right to know and has challenged the centuries old tradition that governments are entitled to keep the public in a state of ignorance. In the Paine, Ellsberg and Assange cases, those in power moved quickly to silence their critics even by perverting the course of justice'.

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