Photo: AP Bahawa wartawan
mesti berjuang untuk menegakkan sumber mereka selamat, pengasas Wikileaks Julian
Assange Selasa, menggesa organisasi media yang lain untuk mengikuti jejak
kumpulan beliau dalam menyokong agresif bagi pihak kebocoran' (That journalists
must fight to keep their sources safe, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said
Tuesday, urging other media organizations to follow his group's lead in
advocating aggressively on leakers' behalf – think IN pictures
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MADAyuMadyan - LONDON (AP) ‘Assange: Wartawan
mestilah menyokong untuk kebocoran’ Sabitan Pfc. Bradley Manning menunjukkan
bahawa wartawan mesti berjuang untuk mengekalkan sumber-sumber mereka selamat,
pengasas Wikileaks Julian Assange Selasa, menggesa organisasi media yang lain
untuk mengikuti jejak kumpulan beliau dalam menyokong agresif bagi pihak
kebocoran.
Dalam temu bual dengan
pemberita di London berikutan sabitan Manning pada perisikan dan caj lain,
Assange berkata, ia adalah wajib ke atas setiap organisasi media untuk berdiri
bahu ke bahu dengan sumber-sumber mereka terhadap usaha-usaha kerajaan untuk
mendakwa kebocoran.
"Ia adalah satu
kewajipan ke atas semua wartawan untuk melindungi sumber-sumber mereka -
teknikal jika boleh - dan memberi sokongan undang-undang dan politik,"
katanya. "Ia adalah tanggungjawab semua organisasi kewartawanan untuk
memegang baris."
Assange bercakap kepada
pemberita dari Kedutaan Ecuador, di mana beliau telah berlubang naik untuk
lebih daripada satu tahun untuk mengelak daripada diekstradisi ke Sweden pada
dakwaan jenayah seks - atau ke Amerika Syarikat untuk didakwa kerana menyiarkan
rahsia kerajaan.
Menarik nada muram
dalam saman yang gelap dan tali leher, Wikileaks pengasas 42 tahun mengutuk
keputusan itu diturunkan Selasa, tetapi dia dan lain-lain telah lama dijangka
disabitkan penganalisis Tentera, dengan alasan bahawa sistem keadilan tentera
telah disusun terhadapnya dari bermula.
Assange berkata, beliau
tidak mengambil keselesaan dari pembebasan Manning atas tuduhan yang paling
serius - membantu musuh - berkata ia adalah "Red herring" yang
bertujuan untuk mengalihkan perhatian daripada sabitan di hampir setiap
pertuduhan lain, termasuk tuduhan pengintipan, kecurian dan penipuan komputer.
"Ia tidak boleh yang
membekalkan maklumat yang benar kepada orang ramai adalah pengintipan,"
Assange menegaskan, menggambarkan sabitan itu sebagai satu duluan buruk yang
akan mengeja "Akhir kewartawanan keselamatan negara di Amerika
Syarikat."
Assange juga bimbang
bahawa penghakiman telah membantu meletakkan tanah untuk pendakwaan sendiri
akhirnya di Amerika Syarikat, sambil menambah bahawa - walaupun Manning sendiri
mengakui lulus beratus-ratus ribu dokumen rahsia kepada Wikileaks - kumpulan
itu masih menjauhi mendakwa beliau sebagai sumbernya.
Walau bagaimanapun,
beliau memuji swasta muda, memanggil dia "Hero" yang akan meletakkan
kebebasan dan hidupnya pada baris untuk mendedahkan salah laku. Beliau berkata
- walaupun amaran buruk Amerika kerosakan bencana diuruskan oleh kebocoran -
Amerika Syarikat masih belum mengenal pasti seorang pun terluka oleh kebocoran.
"Tidak seorang pun
datang untuk merosakkan akibat aktiviti Bradley Manning," kata beliau.
"Satu-satunya mangsa yang cedera adalah kebanggaan kerajaan Amerika
Syarikat."
Assange: Journalists must advocate for leakers
MADAyuMadyan - LONDON (AP) The conviction of Pfc.
Bradley Manning shows that journalists must fight to keep their sources safe,
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said Tuesday, urging other media organizations
to follow his group's lead in advocating aggressively on leakers' behalf.
In an interview with
reporters in London following Manning's conviction on espionage and other
charges, Assange said it was incumbent on every media organization to stand
shoulder-to-shoulder with their sources against government efforts to prosecute
leakers.
"It is an
obligation on all journalists to protect their sources - technically if
possible - and provide some legal and political support," he said.
"It's an obligation of all journalistic organizations to hold the
line."
Assange spoke to
reporters from the Ecuadorean Embassy, where he has been holed up for more than
a year to avoid being extradited to Sweden on sex crimes allegations - or to
the United States to be prosecuted for publishing government secrets.
Striking a somber tone
in a dark suit and tie, the 42-year-old WikiLeaks founder condemned the verdict
handed down Tuesday, but he and others had long anticipated the Army analyst's
conviction, arguing that the military justice system was stacked against him
from the start.
Assange said he took no
comfort from Manning's acquittal on the most serious charge - aiding the enemy
- saying it was a "red herring" intended to distract from his
conviction on nearly every other charge, including counts of espionage, theft
and computer fraud.
"It can never be
that supplying true information to the public is espionage," Assange
insisted, describing the conviction as a hideous precedent that would spell the
"end of national security journalism in the United States."
Assange also worried
that judgment had helped lay the ground for his own eventual prosecution in the
United States, adding that - although Manning himself admitted passing hundreds
of thousands of classified documents to WikiLeaks - the group was still steering
clear of claiming him as its source.
Nevertheless, he was
full of praise for the young private, calling him a "hero" who'd put
his liberty and his life on the line to expose wrongdoing. He said that -
despite dire American warnings of catastrophic damage dealt by the leaks - the
U.S. had yet to identify a single person hurt by the leaks.
"Not a single
person came to harm as the result of Bradley Manning's activities," he
said. "The only victim was the U.S. government's wounded pride."
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