Whistleblower – that is, the cases of Manning and Snowden show – dangerous to life and put a lot of effort to bring the truth to light. An Overview of spectacular and not-so-well-known cases in the world.
11. April Julian Assange, the founder of the Wikileaks platform has been taken in London. Since 2013, he had lived in the Embassy of Ecuador, where he had obtained asylum. Him a prison sentence of up to twelve months. Many are outraged – on the Front line: Edward Snowden. The former NSA employee, he made his revelation about the systematic spying by intelligence agencies for headlines. Snowden shows up on Twitter, visibly shocked, and speaks of a “black day for freedom of the press”.
Even if Assange can not apply in the strict sense, as a Whistleblower, the Whistleblower work, by Definition, in the System, from which you can make the secrets public – he knows the dangers and privations of a Whistleblower. Before him there were already others whose actions have changed your entire life.
For years, the US government deceived the Public about the goals of the war in Vietnam-war (archive image)
Daniel “Dan” Ellsberg
The now 88-year-old US-American Economist and peace activist, made the beginning of the seventies, when he published the secret Pentagon papers. Thus, in 1971, it was revealed the year-long deception of the Public in the United States on key aspects of the Vietnam war. So, the secret papers showed the real goals of the war by several US administrations in a row.
The publication of the documents by the New York Times was banned by the government. Ellsberg was indicted for espionage – him 115 years of prison threatened. The process of burst, as a of the Nixon administration initiated the collapse of the secret service employees in the practice of Ellsbergs psychiatrist and his illegal Surveillance known.
Even today, Ellsberg is still politically active, he criticized, among other things, solid in the Iraq wars of the United States. In June 2013, he described the publications in the PRISM surveillance program by Edward Snowden as the “most important in the history of the United States”.
Nuclear safety in the Russian North sea fleet (archive), Alexander Nikitin theme
Alexander Konstantinovich Nikitin
The Russian engineer has a total of twelve years on a submarine in the Russian Northern fleet served – most of the time as a U-boat captain. In 1994, he published the fleet a post about nuclear safety in the Russian North. In Russia, the report was banned immediately, Nikitin threatened in the event of a conviction, even the death penalty.
After ten months in detention Nikitin was released in December 1996. Many of the Attempts by the Russian secret service, the FSB, Nikitin accuse failed. Therefore, the case, learned is of fundamental importance: for the First time by the Russian domestic secret service FSB to court-imposed charges in the last instance was rejected and the Accused fully acquitted.
Alexander Nikitin continues to be actively involved environmental and human rights in Russia. In 1999, he was awarded as the first prize winner with the “Whistleblower prize”.
The Journalist Gianluigi Nuzzi (archive picture of 2016) worked with the documents of Renato Dardozzi
Renato Dardozzi
The Chancellor of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, he was commissioned to investigate the scandal of the “Banco Ambrosiano”. In this capacity, he has brought thousands of internal documents from the Vatican Bank secretly in Switzerland and last will and Testament whose publication after his death.
2003 Dardozzi died at the age of 81 years. The executor of the will contacted the Italian journalist Gianluigi Nuzzi, who processed the documents. The result of the reprocessing was The Vatican Bank, the “Istituto per le Opere di Religione”, the short IOR, was much entangled further more in scandals than before. 2009 published by Nuzzi, the results in the book “the Vatican AG”.
The driver of the truck chassis in the straightener can be a Hero – here in the RTL-review of the year in 2007, with Günther Jauch
Miroslaw Straightener
The German lorry driver revealed in 2007, a meat scandal, in the course of which the operating value of meat GmbH and the managing Director was sentenced to two years ‘ imprisonment. A little later, the then Bavarian environment Minister Werner Schnappauf resigned.
In August 2007, Strecker witness to a relabeling has been declared, the inferior meat as a food. Many Attempts to make the case public, failed first. The truck driver insisted on further investigations, since he had the shipping documents as a proof. Subsequently, the police investigated further. Late, the authorities responded and closed the operation. They noted that the company had sold 150 tons of meat waste in Berlin’s Doner kebab manufacturers.
The whistleblower was celebrated after the Blow of the scandal as a “Hero” in television shows, Newspapers and news. He has received several awards for his courage. Straightener bridged the period of his unemployment, later, with the prize money, the four courage prices. This is also why the truck driver is considered to be an example for people who show civil courage, although you have to suffer personally to the negative consequences.
Klaus Förster (1988), identified as the head of the tax office Sankt Augustin the Flick party donations affair
Klaus Förster
The tax man, and later a tax attorney was the mid-70s by the detection of the Flick party donations scandal. As head of the tax investigation the tax authorities in Sankt Augustin, near Bonn, a coincidence brought him on the trail of a party donations affair, which he pursued persistently. The mission served the house of the Steyler missionaries in Sankt Augustin as a Money-laundering machine. A total of 12.3 million DM of the Flick-group flowed into the coffers of the Steyler Mission.
The investigations Forester not clashed with his superiors on against love – they tried to him, the dismantling of the party donations scandal. The tax investigators determined, undeterred, and was transferred to the city of Cologne tax office. In 1983, a Forester retired from the state service and worked as a tax lawyer in Bonn.
Israel’s nuclear plant in Dimona (archive)
Mordechai Vanunu
The Israeli nuclear technician, was made known in 1986, the existence of the until then secret nuclear research program in Israel. Made headlines Vanunu’s abduction by an action of the Israeli foreign intelligence service Mossad. 30. In September 1986, the Whistleblower of the Israeli agent Cheryl Ben Tov was lured to Rome where the Mossad kidnapped and then by ship to Israel. For six weeks the Israeli government to know something about Vanunu’s whereabouts, until it managed to leave from a police van sent out to journalists a message to ride.
Treason and espionage, Vanunu was on 24. March 1988 to 18 years in prison, of which he spent about eleven years in solitary confinement. 21. April 2004, the Whistleblower, was released under strict conditions free of – so he may use neither cell phones nor the Internet.