How are whistleblowers protected across the world?

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Activists gathered to support the American whistleblower Bradley Manning, accused of having transmitted diplomatic telegrams to WikiLeaks.

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By: Clémentine Pawlotsky

1 min

The Facebook whistleblower continues her European tour.

Frances Haugen is today in Brussels, Belgium, where she is to be heard by MEPs.

She is expected Wednesday (November 10, 2021) in France where she will be heard by a parliamentary committee.

Whistleblowers occupy more and more place in the public debate.

They allow many scandals and judicial opacities to be revealed, often at their own risk.

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Several emblematic cases bear witness to this: that of Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks, still imprisoned in the United Kingdom;

or, more recently, that of the young Chinese journalist Zhang Zhan, imprisoned for having covered the Covid-19 crisis.

She is currently between life and death, according to her relatives.

How are whistleblowers protected across the world?

A decryption with:

Juliette Alibert,

 lawyer for the house of whistleblowers and 

French whistleblower, employee of UBS France who denounced tax evasion and laundering of tax evasion of UBS AG (Switzerland) and UBS France , allowing the French tax authorities to identify 38,000 offshore accounts.

Author of

 (Seek Midi) and

, prefaced by Julian Assange (Max Milo).  

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