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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been awarded the Sydney Peace Foundation's Gold Medal for "exceptional courage in the pursuit of human rights".
According to a Foundation statement today, veteran Australian broadcaster Mary Kostakidis praised WikLeaks as an "ingenious and heroic website that has shifted the power balance between citizen and the state by exposing what governments really get up to in our name".
Acknowledging that "exposing secrets can be dangerous business", Kostakidis thanked Assange for his "heroic courage" as a whistleblower to take "great risks for our benefit".
In accepting the Gold Medal, Assange said, "The real value of this award and the Sydney Peace Foundation is that it makes explicit the link between peace and justice.
It does not take the safe feel good option of shunning controversy by uttering platitudes.
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My heart and soul is completely with people like Julian Assange and Anna Hazare. It's such a relief that our moral values have not died down yet. Like many others who support anti-corruption campaigns, i hv my limitations too. But my heart is with then.
by Pushpa S (not verified) Posted on:- 19/08/11My heart and soul is completely with people like Julian Assange and Anna Hazare. I hv my limitations too. But my mind is full of such anti-corruption thoughts and am relieved by the thought that our moral values hv not died down yet.
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