Assange says WikiLeaks won't rest until hero whistleblower Manning freed

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ANI Sydney
Last Updated : Aug 01 2013 | 1:00 PM IST

Julian Assange has said WikiLeaks would not rest until 'hero' Bradley Manning was free.

Assange called Manning 'the most important journalistic source the world has ever seen' whose disclosures had exposed war crimes, sparked revolutions and induced democratic reform.

He told a handful of reporters inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London that Manning is the quintessential whistleblower, adding that the ruling was 'a short-sighted judgment that cannot be tolerated and it must be reversed', the Sydney Morning Herald reports.

He said that their processes to protect sources have been successful, adding that throughout this case, no evidence has been adduced from inside WikiLeaks, from its personnel or its operations against Manning, the report said.

According to the report, Assange argued the abuse of Manning had left the world with a sense of disgust at how the Obama administration had fallen.

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First Published: Aug 01 2013 | 12:53 PM IST

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