Protestors blockaded Wilson Security car parks in Sydney and Melbourne on June 27 to mark 100 days of protests by asylum seekers held at Australia's immigration detention centre on Nauru. Wilson has the security contract for detention centres on Nauru and Manus Island.
Activists targeted car parks at Circular Quay and Melbourne Central from 7am, insisting Wilson Security is a major detention centre industry player, which profits from people seeking asylum.
Whistleblower
Sitting safely inside the head of a pale, grey telebot, slowly gyrating in an attempt to be innocuous; it turned to face the audience, introducing itself as Edward Snowden 鈥 the Worlds Most Wanted Man.
The Whistleblowers , Activists and Citizens鈥 Alliance released this statement on July 25.
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Refugee supporters broke through security barriers at the ALP conference today, dropping a banner reading 鈥淣o refugee tow-backs鈥 and wearing shirts saying 鈥渢urn back the votes鈥 in opposition to Labor's boat turn-back policy.
The Border Force Act came into force on July 1. Under this Act, people working in immigration detention centres risk two years鈥 jail for disclosing evidence of the horrendous, inhumane conditions in those places.
British submariner William McNeilly went on the run after he released confidential information about Britain's Trident nuclear weapons program on May 12. He was detained by police after returning to Scotland on May 18.
McNeilly had been in hiding after he wrote and released an 18 page document highlighting a 鈥渄isaster waiting to happen鈥. The British defence ministry said he was being held in a secure military base.
Luke Harding's The Snowden Files is a well-constructed overview of the biggest intelligence leak in history - but it is not without its flaws. The Guardian journalist tells a detailed story of Edward Snowden - from his childhood in a military, Republican family, his short education and brief, failed army career, to his meteoric rise through the intelligence services that eventually enabled him to turn whistleblower.
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