UPDATE - MAY 14 2024
Amnesty International Australia raises serious concerns for the sentence of six years imposed upon David McBride. McBride is the first whistleblower to be imprisoned in contemporary Australia. His sentence has had a chilling effect upon truth in journalism, illustrating the suppression and restrictions imposed upon individual rights to freedom of expression.States have an obligation to ensure that any restriction is provided by law, and is necessary and proportionate to that legitimate aim. Restrictions on the right to freedom of expression and access to information based on the protection of national security need to respect the role of the media, and people should not be prevented from publishing classified information based on vague or overly-broad notions of what constitutes a threat to national security. The media plays a fundamental role in informing society of issues that are in the public interest. Punishing journalists and other media workers solely for having published classified information about human rights abuses goes beyond these permissible restrictions.
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Our first episode is a frank and eye-opening conversation with Australian military lawyer whistleblower David McBride, who now faces imprisonment for exposing Australian war crimes in Afghanistan.
Listen to learn about McBride exposed human rights violations and called for media transparency as a whistleblower.
Learn more about David McBride here and learn about how Amnesty is campaigning to end human rights violations around the world here.
