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November 5, 2010

WikiLeaks Renews Call for US Probe
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The founder of the online whistleblower Wiki Leaks says he’s considering
applying for political asylum in Switzerland in the wake of the US-led
crackdown on his organization. Julian Assange says Switzerland as well
Cuba and Iceland are the only countries with whistleblower protection
laws that could allow Wiki Leaks to operate safely. Assange also renewed
calls for the US to investigate human rights abuses in Iraq and
Afghanistan detailed in the hundreds of thousands of documents his group
has released.

Julian Assange: "The result of this and some of our other publishing
activities has led not to the United States conducting a full and frank
investigation into the abuses revealed, as other countries are doing,
but rather an aggressive investigation into this organization, public
threats towards this organization, a demand for the destruction of that
material."



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