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May 11, 2011

WikiLeaks Founder Honored With Peace Award 
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Wiki Leaks founder Julian Assange has been honored with a peace award
from Australia's Sydney Peace Foundation. Assange accepted the award in
London, where is free on bail fighting extradition to Sweden to face
questioning on sexual crime allegations. Sydney Peace Foundation
director Stuart Rees paid tribute to Assange and Wiki Leaks.

Stuart Rees: "We think that the struggle for peace and justice
inevitably involves conflict, inevitably involves controversy. If it was
a sort of stumbling towards some kind of consensus nothing would ever
happen. Now, in that respect, we think that you and Wiki Leaks have
bought about what we think is a watershed in journalism and in freedom
of information and potentially in politics."



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