Media News - Thursday, January 11, 2007
Chinese cyber-dissidents launch WikiLeaks, a site for whistleblowers
Chinese dissidents, with the help of powerful encryption software, say they will launch a site designed to let whistleblowers in authoritarian countries post sensitive documents on the internet without being traced. 'Our primary interests are oppressive regimes in Asia, the former Soviet bloc, sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East, but we also expect to be of assistance to those in the West who wish to reveal unethical behaviour in their own governments and corporations,' says the site WikiLeaks (www.wikileaks.org). An official for WikiLeaks in Washington, identifying himself as Julian Assange, said on Wednesday that the group hoped to go online from March but had been 'discovered' before its launch and was not fully prepared for the publicity it was now receiving. The site says it has already received 'over 1.1 million documents so far from dissident communities and anonymous sources.' There are no formal links to the online encyclopaedia Wikipedia. (AFP, Yahoo News)
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