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Archive for 'human rights'

Wikileaks document helped change U.K. policy on National Student Survey

Most targets of Wikileaked documents respond defensively when they find out about the sensitive, private material posted about them online.
The Church of Scientology and the Mormon Church sent cease-and-desist letters when Wikileaks published their secret theological documents, and a U.K. spokeswoman emailed Wikileaks to request that these early drawings of the atomic bomb be taken [...]

Wikileaks releases photos of police brutality in Korean protests

Thousands of Koreans have taken to the streets to protest a free-trade agreement between South Korea and the U.S. that would reopen Korea to U.S. beef imports.
The protests turned violent over the weekend as riot police beat protesters and sprayed them with water cannons. Wikileaks released photos of the bloodshed.

Beef imports to Korea were cut [...]

The higher moral code of Wikileaks and whistleblowing

Check out this fascinating article about Wikileaks from the Toronto Globe and Mail. The article’s writer, Ivor Tossell, discusses Wikileaks in the grand sense — what the site means for governments, dissidents and the Internet, and how the group’s legal invincibility and pro-citizen moral code have allowed it to take full advantage of the Internet [...]

Top-secret bibles? Not once they’re on the Internet.

Why hasn’t the Church of Scientology sued Wikileaks? They have sued numerous other organizations for offenses far milder than releasing their entire secret bibles for public view, as Wikileaks did on March 24. So far Scientology has done nothing but send Wikileaks a letter. An angry letter, written by lawyers, requesting the documents be removed.
But [...]

Hot tips and controversy

Wikileaks.org publishes confidential documents received anonymously from dissidents, activists, journalists and whistleblowers operating around the world. Starvation at Fallujah, corruption in Kenya, slimy banking and sick, sick pedophiles - Wikileaks exposes them all.
The site’s stated mission is to develop “an uncensorable Wikipedia for untraceable mass document leaking and analysis.” Their primary goal: “to be of [...]