Journalists' association: Criticism of US reaction to Wikileaks revelations
The United States' response to the WikiLeaks revelations was sharply criticized by the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ).
The reaction to the publication of confidential US State Department dispatches on the Wikileaks revelation portal is desperate and dangerous, explained IFJ Secretary General Aidan White in Brussels on Thursday. He also criticized the political campaign against the co-founder of Wikileaks, Julian Assange, and corporal Bradley Manning, who is said to have leaked the documents to the whistleblowing portal. The calls for Manning's murder and the accusations of espionage against Assange were evidence of a spirit of intolerance and persecution that is dangerous not only for these two men, but for all journalists who investigate political and diplomatic affairs, White criticized.
The IFJ did not comment on the publication of the documents themselves, but welcomed Wikileaks' decision to use recognized media to evaluate the information. The accusation that this would put lives at risk is not tenable, explained White.
Wikileaks now available at wikileaks.ch
Wikileaks has announced on Twitter that it has now moved to Switzerland and has a new domain: Instead of Wikileaks.org, the disclosure platform can now be reached at Wikileaks.ch. However, it appears that only the homepage has been moved so far; the links to the actual, controversial documents are still on the server that is no longer accessible.
The reason for this is that the American domain name provider EveryDNS, which manages the address, has stopped processing requests for the website, according to its own information. This had become necessary due to repeated attacks on the address. Massive attacks had jeopardized the entire infrastructure of the EveryDNS network, it said. EveryDNS manages access to around 500,000 websites.
The platform has angered the governments of the USA and many other countries because almost half a million documents classified as confidential or secret about the US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and, most recently, tens of thousands of messages from US diplomats have been published there.
Amazon.com had previously pulled the plug and expelled Wikileaks from its servers.
The IFJ did not comment on the publication of the documents themselves, but welcomed Wikileaks' decision to use recognized media to evaluate the information. The accusation that this would put lives at risk is not tenable, explained White.
Wikileaks now available at wikileaks.ch
Wikileaks has announced on Twitter that it has now moved to Switzerland and has a new domain: Instead of Wikileaks.org, the disclosure platform can now be reached at Wikileaks.ch. However, it appears that only the homepage has been moved so far; the links to the actual, controversial documents are still on the server that is no longer accessible.
The reason for this is that the American domain name provider EveryDNS, which manages the address, has stopped processing requests for the website, according to its own information. This had become necessary due to repeated attacks on the address. Massive attacks had jeopardized the entire infrastructure of the EveryDNS network, it said. EveryDNS manages access to around 500,000 websites.
The platform has angered the governments of the USA and many other countries because almost half a million documents classified as confidential or secret about the US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and, most recently, tens of thousands of messages from US diplomats have been published there.
Amazon.com had previously pulled the plug and expelled Wikileaks from its servers.
