Seamus Murphy

愛爾蘭 VII Photo Agency

新聞人物 單幅 第二名

九月三十日,揭弊網站「維基解密」的創辦人阿桑奇在倫敦大學舉辦的一場座談會中露面。該網站在2010年公開大批美軍有關伊拉克戰爭和阿富汗戰爭的機密文件,之後也公布許多美國與中東和其他國際外交官的敏感往來書信,揭露的內容包含巴勒斯坦談判代表對於以色列的立場。瑞典檢察官在九月初時,針對先前一起指控阿桑奇性侵的案件重啟調查。次月,檢方對阿桑奇發佈國際通緝令,而引發蓄意中傷之說。

Seamus Murphy

Ireland, VII Photo Agency

2nd Prize People in the News Singles

Julian Assange, founder of the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks, emerges from a panel discussion at the University of London, on 30 September. During the year, WikiLeaks had made public a large batch of classified US military documents on Iraq and Afghanistan. It went on to release sensitive correspondence between American, Middle-Eastern, and other international diplomats, including revelations on the stance taken by Palestinian negotiators in connection with Israel. At the beginning of September, the Swedish Director of Prosecutions re-opened a previously dropped case against Assange on allegations of sexual assault. The following month an international warrant was issued for his arrest, sparking accusations of a smear campaign.