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Sarah Harrison and Grace North at the 31st Chaos Communication Congress
December 29, 2014
Courage's Acting Director and the manager of FreeJeremy.net discuss “ethics, operational security and public protections of sources,” in addition to the need for expanding our understanding of the term “whistleblower" Read more..
Press release: Top musicians, actors and Nobel laureates show support for Edward Snowden, publishers and whistleblowers
November 10, 2014
An international coalition of more than fifty actors, musicians and intellectuals announce their support for Edward Snowden, WikiLeaks, whistleblowers and publishers Read more..
Obama: “If you blow the whistle, you should be thanked”
August 13, 2014
President Obama says whistleblowers should be "protected", "thanked", and "certainly shouldn't be punished" - while punishing more whistleblowers than any other president in American history Read more..
Yochai Benkler outlines public accountability defence for whistleblowers
August 12, 2014
In a new paper, Benkler details both the value and inevitability of national security disclosures, and he proposes a whistleblower defence that could have helped protect Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden Read more..
Press release: Courage welcomes Russia’s continued protection of Edward Snowden
August 7, 2014
Courage Acting Director Sarah Harrison says: "Although the US government has lost this round, let us not forget the stakes - last year whistleblower Chelsea Manning was sentenced to 35 years in a US military prison and the Grand Jury against both WikiLeaks and Edward Snowden continues" Read more..
CIA spying on its own “internal channels” for whistleblowers
July 28, 2014
McClatchy reports that the CIA is treating internal channels as insider threats Read more..
Australia’s new law would criminalise Snowden reporting
July 21, 2014
Australia introduces a legislative proposal that evokes the US's Espionage Act, stokes unfounded fears and criminalises journalism in line with a crackdown on whistleblowing Read more..