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‫‪Dr. Shadia Yousef Banjar‬‬
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‫ويكيليكس ) ‪ ،Wikileaks‬ومعناها "تسريبات‬
‫الويكي"( يعتبر موقع ويكيليكس -كما يقول القائمون‬
‫عليه- موقعا للخدمة العامة مخصصا لحماية الشخاص‬
‫الذين يكشفون الفضائح والسرار التي تنال من‬
‫المؤسسات أو الحكومات الفاسدة، وتكشف كل‬
‫النتهاكات التي تمس حقوق النسان أينما وكيفما كانت.‬
‫من أبرز القائمين على الموقع الناشط جوليان أسانغي.‬
‫السم جاء من دمج كلمة "ويكي" والتي تعني الباص‬
‫المتنقل مثل المكوك من وإلى مكان معين، وكلمة‬
‫"ليكس" وتعني بالنجليزية "التسريبات".‬
‫تم تأسيس الموقع في يوليو 7002 وبدأ منذ ذلك الحين بالعمل على نشر المعلومات، وخوض الصراعات والمعارك القضائية‬
‫والسياسية من أجل حماية المبادئ التي قام عليها، وأولها "صدقية وشفافية المعلومات والوثائق التاريخية وحق الناس في خلق تاريخ‬
‫جديد".‬
‫وانطلق الموقع بداية من خلل حوار بين مجموعة من الناشطين على النترنت من أنحاء متفرقة من العالم مدفوعين بحرصهم على‬
‫احترام وحماية حقوق النسان ومعاناته، بدءا من قلة توفر الغذاء والرعاية الصحية والتعليم والقضايا الساسية الخرى.‬
‫ومن هذا المنطلق، رأى القائمون علي الموقع أن أفضل طريقة لوقف هذه النتهاكات هو كشفها وتسليط الضوء عليها.‬
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2. [LANE 462- CA-2011] December 13, 2010
Dr. Shadia Yousef Banjar
WikiLeaks is an international new media non-profit organisation
that publishes submissions of otherwise unavailable documents
from anonymous news sources and news leaks. Its website,
launched in 2006, is run by The Sunshine Press.[2] Within a year of
its launch, the site claimed a database that had grown to more than
1.2 million documents.[6] The organisation has described itself as
having been founded by Chinese dissidents, as well as journalists,
mathematicians, and start-up company technologists from the
United States, Taiwan, Europe, Australia, and South Africa.[2] Julian
Assange, an Australian Internet activist, is generally described as its
director.[7]
WikiLeaks has won a number of awards, including the 2008
Economist magazine New Media Award.[8] In June 2009, WikiLeaks
and Julian Assange won Amnesty International's UK Media Award
(in the category "New Media") for the 2008 publication of "Kenya:
The Cry of Blood – Extra Judicial Killings and Disappearances",[9] a
report by the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights about
police killings in Kenya.[10] In May 2010, the New York Daily News
listed WikiLeaks first in a ranking of "websites that could totally
change the news".[11] Russia extended its support to WikiLeaks and
its founder Julian Assange by issuing a statement which suggested
that Assange should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, in the
aftermath of the United States diplomatic cables leak.[12]
In April 2010, WikiLeaks posted video from a 2007 incident in
which Iraqi civilians and journalists were killed by U.S. forces, on a
website called Collateral Murder. In July of the same year,
WikiLeaks released Afghan War Diary, a compilation of more than
76,900 documents about the War in Afghanistan not previously
available for public review.[13] In October, the group released a
package of almost 400,000 documents called the Iraq War Logs in
coordination with major commercial media organisations. In
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3. [LANE 462- CA-2011] December 13, 2010
Dr. Shadia Yousef Banjar
November 2010, WikiLeaks began releasing U.S. State department
diplomatic cables.
WikiLeaks was originally launched as a user-editable wiki site, but
has progressively moved towards a more traditional publication
model, and no longer accepts either user comments or edits. The site
is available on multiple servers and different domain names
following a number of denial-of-service attacks and its severance
from different Domain Name System (DNS) providers.[14][15]
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