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The Information Rights Project, born from the campaign to free Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, has been operating for a year but needs funds to keep going.
One year ago Gabriel Shipton, brother of Julian Assange, founded The Information Rights Project, a registered charity to uphold the right to acces information, which they see as a human right.
“Today we defend David McBride, a military whistleblower now two years in prison for exposing unlawful conduct by Australian special forces,” Shipton said.
“A powerful lobby group dragged Mary Kostakidis, one of this country’s most respected journalists, before the Federal Court for her reporting on Gaza. We are standing beside her.
“We are keeping Marcus, a former ASIO officer, safe in hiding because he spoke about intelligence failures and we are fighting speech suppression laws that threaten the right of every Australian to speak freely.
“No other organisation in Australia took these cases. We did. The information rights project was founded because the fight to free Julian Assange revealed something urgent. The people who tell the truth, the journalists who publish it, and the whistleblowers who risk everything to get it out have almost nowhere to turn.’
Shipton says the project needs to raise $150,000 by 3 July just to keep operating. Visit the organisation’s website to make a donation or find out more.
