Showing posts with label kristinn hrafnsson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label kristinn hrafnsson. Show all posts

Sunday, 30 September 2012

Video: RT interviews Kristinn Hrafnsson, spokesman for WikiLeaks


WikiLeaks spokesman, Kristinn Hrafnsson, says the US naming Julian Assange and WikiLeaks as an enemy of the state, will see him treated as a terrorist if extradited there.
Kristinn Hrafnsson attended the UN General Assembly, and was available for questioning in the US, after Julian Assange spoke to the assembly via satellite video link.
On September 26, WikiLeaks released an official internal document from the US Military that refers to Assange and WikiLeaks as the "enemy". The document is from an internal investigation in the US Air Force, released under the Freedom of Information Act. The document adds to the large store of proof of the persecution of Assange and WikiLeaks by the United States government... read more and watch interview.

Thursday, 21 June 2012

'WikiLeaks will carry on despite crackdown on whistleblowers'


RT interviewed Kristinn Hrafnsson, an Icelandic WikiLeaks member, on the systematic crackdown on whistleblowers worldwide.
In this interesting interview, Hrafnsson, an investigative journalist in Iceland, explains why he joined WikiLeaks as a press spokesman, after the exposure of the banking corruption in Iceland.
He says in the interview, "Julian Assange was working in Iceland the winter 2009-2010. After that Wikileaks actually produced a tremendously important leak which exposed corruption within Iceland. It shed light onto why the entire banking system of Iceland collapsed in 2008. I met him in that period when he was in Iceland working on other things." ... read more and watch interview.