1. Wikileaks

2. Julian Assange
 Julian Assange is an
Australian editor,
activist, publisher and
journalist. He is best
known as the editor-in-
chief and founder of
WikiLeaks, which
publishes submissions
of secret information,
news leaks, and
classified media from
anonymous news
sources and
whistleblowers.

3. Controversy
 He is currently staying at the Embassy of Ecuador after being told he could be
extradited to the U.S and be executed. His lawyers are fighting to get Assange
brought back to Australia so he can be protected by Australian laws and are asking
Australian citizens to get him back as he is not being charged with anything. He
has diplomatic immunity in Ecuador but will be arrested if he leaves the embassy.
Rape allegations from 15 years ago in Sweden have surfaced as a reason to get
Assange into custody and to cover up the government secrets that have been
found out. The U.S want him extraduted because of a leak about a U.S soldier
shooting civilians from an aircraft, although Assange only made the website for
other people to post on, he did not do it himself. He is not the only one who created
the website, but he is getting the blame because everyone knows who he is.

4. Should he be extradited to the U.S or Sweden?
 No, because he is just the creator of the website, not
the person posting on it, therefore the secrets released
are not his fault. There should be freedom of speech for
everyone to know what the governments are getting up
to, and he is an Australian citizen, therefore his own
government should decide what is done to him. The
Internet has freedom of speech so everyone should be
entitled to say and release what he or she wants and
find out about any information that they are interested
in. Government mistakes should not be covered up, but
learnt from.

5. Links
 http://213.251.145.96/
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiLeaks
 http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/47213
 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-11047811
 http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/mar
/30/wikileaks-secrets-whistleblowers-new-rules