Wikileaks Case: Leaked Documents and Legal Proceedings
"Explore the Wikileaks case involving the leak of classified military documents and embassy cables. Learn about Wikileaks, Julian Assange, the leaked information, legal proceedings, and related controversies. Delve into the timeline of events and criticisms surrounding the case."
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University of Trieste April 2019 Course: Legal English Professor: M.J. Hammersley Student: Lara Devetak THE WIKILEAKS CASE
WHATS THE CASE ABOUT? leaks of hundreds of thousands of military documents and embassy cables, many of which were classified. distribution at a slow pace
WHAT IS WIKILEAKS? an international non-profit organization that publishes secret information provided by anonymous sources founded in 2006 in Iceland PURPOSE: share important information of public interest ensure that journalists and whistleblowers are not prosecuted JULIAN ASSANGE
THE LEAKS December 2006 Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys April 2010 Baghdad airstrike February 2010 Reykjavik 13 April 2011 Guantanamo July 2010 Afghan War logs October 2010 Iraq War July 2016 US Secretary e-mails March 2017 Vault 7
2010: beginning of the investigations. June 2010: Manning is arrested August 2010: assault charges and release on house arrest for Assange. June 2012: political asylum at the Ecuadorean Embassy in London 11th April 2019: Ecuador withdraws asylum. Assange is arrested. THE LEGAL PROCEDINGS
CRITICISMS Hillary lacks judgement and will push the United States into endless, stupid wars which spread terrorism: she certainly should not become president of the United States." ANTI-AMERICANISM PRO RUSSIA ANTI CLINTON-PRO TRUMP ANTI-SEMITISM MISLEADING CLAIMS VIOLATION OF PERSONAL PRIVACY
