• 10 months ago
There was no evidence Julian Assange's WikiLeaks publication harmed anyone, his lawyer claimed.Source: Sky News

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00:00 Wikileaks has won journalism awards and Julian himself has won journalism awards the world over.
00:04 He's been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize every year since those publications because of
00:08 the impact of those publications and the immense public interest. Revelation about war crimes,
00:13 the use of torture, arbitrary detention, evidence that's been used in courts around the world to
00:18 hold governments accountable for human rights abuse. Indeed, even the allegation, we had expert
00:23 evidence in the case showing that the publications on the Iraq war brought about the end of the
00:27 occupation of Iraq. So these are significant publications and there's no evidence, even on
00:32 the US's own case in the evidence before this court, that anyone was harmed as a result of
00:37 the Wikileaks publication.

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