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May 17, 2010

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has passport confiscated

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The Australian founder of the whistleblower website Wikileaks had his passport confiscated by police when he arrived in Melbourne last week.

Julian Assange, who does not have an official home base and travels every six weeks, told the Australian current affairs program Dateline that immigration officials had said his passport was going to be cancelled because it was looking worn.

However he then received a letter from the Australian Communication Minister Steven Conroy’s office stating that the recent disclosure on Wikileaks of a blacklist of websites the Australian government is preparing to ban had been referred to the Australian Federal Police (AFP).

Last year Wikileaks published a confidential list of websites that the Australian government is preparing to ban under a proposed internet filter – which in turn caused the whistleblower site to be placed on that list.

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Mr Assange, 37, told The Age newspaper that half an hour after his passport was returned to him an AFP officer searched one of his bags and questioned him about a previous criminal record for computer hacking offences when he was a teenager.

He was then told his passport status was classified as “normal” on the immigration database

In 1991 Mr Assange, described by Wikileaks as “Australia’s most famous ethical computer hacker”, was charged with 30 offences over the alleged hacking of police, Telco’s and US military computers. He admitted to 24 charges and was fined and placed on a good behaviour bond.

Mr Assange told the Dateline program that Australia is one of a few countries he is wary of travelling in as a result of documents published on the Wikileaks website.

“There are places … Dubai, who is trying to have us arrested, Switzerland under the bank secrecy laws, Cayman Islands,” he said. “Australia had the federal police in relation to its censorship list so there are some jurisdictions that from time to time it wouldn’t be sensible to go there.”

Wikileaks, which publishes anonymously sourced confidential documents from governments and corporations, was launched in January 2007.

The site has since exposed secrets about corruption in Kenya, Nato’s plans for the war in Afghanistan and the operations manual for the US detention centre at Guantanamo Bay.

Last month Wikileaks created international headlines when it published classified US military footage of an American attack helicopter gunning down Iraqi civilians and a Reuters photographer in 2007.

Until recently Mr Assange has kept a very low profile, rarely granting interviews or making public appearances.

He is believed to have boltholes in Iceland, Sweden and Kenya, but does not have an official home base. He says he travels every six weeks, running his Wikileaks empire from a laptop and a backpack while on the road.

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lee oneill wrote:
I read this article and felt fear. We have stood by and done nothing while those that govern us have erroded away the very principle on which our supposed democratic society is founded. Government processes must be transparent and open to scrutiny. In a closed institutional environment corruption thrives. People with vested interests become powerful and less accountable for their actions. In such an environment we would be a democracy in name only. Without the threat of accountability our politicians will increasingly seek to control our access to information, particularly information that they wish to limit our access to. The scary thing is as I read aloud what I have written, I think 'I sound like a conspiracy theorist'. But no, I am just a working mother, who looks aound herself and wonders what will become of my children and grandchildren. What political environment will my grandchildren inherit? What rights and freedoms will they have? Most importantly, to what degree will their access to information be censored and suppressed? We have to stop being so complacent!
May 18, 2010 10:54 PM BST on community.timesonline.co.uk
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jimmy jams wrote:
1984 is here , we are not allowed to know the truth now . in fact it will be illegal to criticise government next ( terrorist offence) if you youyube michael cremo , zacharia sitchin and graham hancock . then project paperclip and joseph farrell on project camelot along with jim marrs . then research the new world order and the illuminati and builderg group etc . then you will see all these are related . oh i forgot nicola tesla on youtube too very important . you will be amazed and enlightened i assure you . you may get addicted though .
May 18, 2010 2:10 PM BST on community.timesonline.co.uk
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lee oneill wrote:
I read this article and felt fear. We have stood by and done nothing while those that govern us have erroded away the very principle on which our supposed democratic society is founded. Government processes must be transparent and open to scrutiny. In a closed institutional environment corruption thrives. People with vested interests become powerful and less accountable for their actions. In such an environment we would be a democracy in name only. Without the threat of accountability our politicians will increasingly seek to control our access to information, particularly information that they wish to limit our access to. The scary thing is as I read aloud what I have written, I think 'I sound like a conspiracy theorist'. But no, I am just a working mother, who looks aound herself and wonders what will become of my children and grandchildren. What political environment will my grandchildren inherit? What rights and freedoms will they have? Most importantly, to what degree will their access to information be censored and suppressed? We have to stop being so complacent!
May 18, 2010 10:46 AM BST on community.timesonline.co.uk
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Bernard Cronyn wrote:
What a surprise and coincidence; yet another Labour party inspired by the high ideals of socialism forcing their own brand of Social Engineering on their people.
May 18, 2010 9:53 AM BST on community.timesonline.co.uk
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LEONARD WELLS wrote:
Well they would say that would'nt they?
May 18, 2010 9:08 AM BST on community.timesonline.co.uk
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david garber wrote:
people like assange are a shining example to us all.with the rise in governmental arrogance all over the world by both new and old regimes it is incumbent upon us to do everything in our power to aid and assist organisations such as his david garber
May 18, 2010 6:26 AM BST on community.timesonline.co.uk
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David Hurst wrote:
I hope this will help focus international attention on Australia's plans for mass censorship and control of the internet. It seems to many like further evidence that the country is sleepwalking its way into a police state.
May 18, 2010 2:31 AM BST on community.timesonline.co.uk
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Alberto Gonzalez wrote:
Don't lose control of your gov't as we've done here in the US, the results are, obviously, disastrous.
May 18, 2010 1:59 AM BST on community.timesonline.co.uk
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Bob Gaul wrote:
The Australian Communications Minister wants to block hundreds of Internet sites. No doubt the biggest number will be sites that are critical of what is happening in the Middle East. No one has a problem with Child porn sites being blocked, however he won't even tell us the sites he intends to block. Not very good communication from a "Communications Minister"!
May 17, 2010 9:04 PM BST on community.timesonline.co.uk
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Patrick Sullivan wrote:
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This man is a hero to the general public - unsuprising that people in power want to harrass him. They don't like it when their unpleasant truths are made public.

Can only add that when the most unpleasant and the absolute mother of all truths, is made known; you're going to wonder where the yellow went!
May 17, 2010 8:43 PM BST on community.timesonline.co.uk
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