600 Thousand People Sign a Petition WikiLeaks


LONDON - Nearly 600 thousand people signed the petition to show support to the WikiLeaks site on Monday 13 December. Petitions are distributed via the Internet, issued ahead of the second session of the founders Julian Assange WikiLeaks.

The petition issued by the Avaaz website, asking the United States (U.S.) and other countries seeking to stop the operation WikiLeaks. This petition calls for the United States and for countries that respect the right of freedom of expression and press freedom.

WikiLeaks previously has released thousands of U.S. diplomatic wires that are very confidential. This condition is caused Washington to feel embarrassed, because almost all the wire is to uncover the secret of U.S. diplomacy. Thus was launched AFP on Tuesday (12/14/2010).

President of the United States (U.S.), Barack Obama assess the leaking of a diplomatic wire is not acceptable and Uncle Sam's country also seeks to shut down operations WikiLeaks. As a result, many other countries which participated the U.S. followed suit.

Consequently, the whistleblower site is forced to change the server to stay alive. Until Monday, December 13th at 12 noon, more than 594 thousand people in the world have signed a petition that was released Avaaz.