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Jailed Assange receives award created to honour slain journalist
Jailed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who faces up to five years jail in the US, has received a top European award for journalism.
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April 17, 20196:18am
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Picture: AP Source:AP
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been given an award established in honour of an assassinated journalist.
Assange, jailed last week after being forcibly removed from the Ecuadorean embassy in London, was awarded the 2019 GUE/NGL Award for Journalists, Whistleblowers & Defenders of the Right to Information.
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, pictured in a police vehicle after being arrested at the Ecuadorean Embassy in Central London. Picture: GettySource:Getty Images
The award is sponsored by European parliamentarians after being established in 2018 in honour of assassinated Maltese journalist Daphne Galizia.
Galizia, 53, a mother of three, was an investigative journalist and anti-corruption activist who was murdered in a car-bomb attack near her home in 2017.
Investigative journalist Daphne Galizia died in a car bomb in 2017. Assange has been named as the winner of an award created in her honour. Picture: AFP Source:AFP
The award is given to individuals “uncovering the truth and exposing it to the public” and to honour “individuals or groups who have been intimidated and/or persecuted for uncovering the truth and exposing it to the public”.
Nobel Peace prize winner Mairead Maguire collected the award on the Australian’s behalf at an event in the European parliament in Strasbourg.
Kristinn Hrafnnson, Wikileaks editor in chief. Picture: AP Source:AP
Kristinn Hrafnsson, WikiLeaks editor, said: “Through WikiLeaks Julian Assange’s vision of transparency has revolutionalised journalism.
“His imprisonment and threatened extradition to the United States has drawn a sharp line in the sand. You are either encouraging the crackdown on media freedom or you are standing with Julian Assange.”
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The award is sponsored by European parliamentarians after being established in 2018 in honour of assassinated Maltese journalist Daphne Galizia.
Galizia, 53, a mother of three, was an investigative journalist and anti-corruption activist who was murdered in a car-bomb attack near her home in 2017.
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The award is given to individuals “uncovering the truth and exposing it to the public” and to honour “individuals or groups who have been intimidated and/or persecuted for uncovering the truth and exposing it to the public”.
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Kristinn Hrafnsson, WikiLeaks editor, said: “Through WikiLeaks Julian Assange’s vision of transparency has revolutionalised journalism.
“His imprisonment and threatened extradition to the United States has drawn a sharp line in the sand. You are either encouraging the crackdown on media freedom or you are standing with Julian Assange.”
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