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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: Chris_ on August 06, 2010, 07:10:36 PM
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Wikileaks' promise is only partly valid because the website has no license to publish material in Sweden. Placing the server in Sweden does not give Wikileaks automatic protection under Swedish law.
Swedish citizens who leak information to a foreign publisher without a publishing license in Sweden could be protected by the constitutional laws of Sweden, but only when the piece of information is handed over to an established media company.
"But the question is what Wikileaks is," says HÃ¥kan Rustand, without providing an assessment of the website's status.
Anders R Olsson is a writer and journalist, specialising in freedom of speech issues. He makes a similar observation as HÃ¥kan Rustand.
"A website needs a license in order to be protected by the laws regarding freedom of speech. You can't claim anonymity in the sense of the state being prohibited from investigating sources without the protection of constitutinal law," he says. "Even when the publisher is protected by constitutional law, the ban on investigating sources isn't watertight. In the case of top secret information that is of great importance to the military, police and prosecutors have a duty to try to find the leak and prosecute the source".
Sydsvenskan (http://www.sydsvenskan.se/kultur-och-nojen/article1196808/English-version-Swedish-law-does-not-protect-Wikileaks-sources.html)
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Looks like someones evening is ruined for them.