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the Stuttgart peace prize for the year 2020 was awarded the Australian journalist and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who is now under arrest in the UK. This was reported by German news Agency dpa.

the Winners of this award is determined by the local civil initiative “Die Anstifter” (the”Founders”). It is awarded annually to people or projects that are “in a special way to serve peace, justice and solidarity.” The cash equivalent of the prize is five thousand euros.

this time the choice fell on Assange, said on Tuesday the Chairman of the initiative Annette ome-Reinicke, in a sign that he not only defends the right to unconditional freedom of information and freedom of the press, but accomplishes it in practice.

Recall that due to Assange founded WikiLeaks in the public domain are the top-secret materials about the spy scandals, corruption in the higher echelons of power, war crimes and secret diplomacy of the Western powers. Now Washington demands the deportation of a whistleblower into their territory where he could be indicted on 18 counts and imprisonment for 175 years. Including the fact that Assange is practically solved many secret informants, the US and talked about war crimes of American soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq.

According to dpa, the prize will be awarded December 6. But the winner on this day is unlikely to be released from his prison cell Britain in Stuttgart. London continues to consider the US request for the extradition of Assange to America.

by the Way, in 2014 the Stuttgart peace prize was awarded to the author of the revelations of the activities of the us national security Agency, former employee of U.S. intelligence Edward Snowden.