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Publicerad den 20 dec 2013
What would a former Gitmo detainee, a journalist in a small central Asian newspaper and an editor of a big Western publication have in common? They are provided with documents from WikiLeaks about politics in the region, but what will they do with them?For a former Gitmo detainee, the documents reveal a bit about why he was captured – for knowing more about the movements of refugees in the area, information that he says “everybody knows.” But for editors in Central Asian capitals, WikiLeaks files are a hot potato.
The documentary film dates back to 2011, when WikiLeaks activists were just starting to realize the power of the leaked US cables they had received from whistleblower Bradley (Chelsea) Manning. In “Mediastan,” produced by Julian Assange, Rebecca O'Brien and Lauren Dark, a group of underground journalists test the impact of the leaked documents as they travel through Central Asia in search of local media outlets willing to publish Cablegate files. Their journey follows the ancient Silk Road traversing Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and US-occupied Afghanistan.
The team of five WikiLeaks supporters, led by Johannes Wahlstrom, meets with a number of local news organizations and offer them classified files, but are consistently greeted with media censorship from local governments and corporations.
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http://rt.com/news/mediastan-wikileaks-asia-release-505/
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Publicerad den 29 dec 2013
RT discusses WikiLeaks road movie 'Mediastan' with a special panel of guests, including film creator Julian Assange, journalist and director Johannes Wahlstrom, and Enayat Najafizada - a young Afghan journalist and one of the heroes of the movie. Our guests raise many questions about the film, including Snowden's revelations, Glenn Greenwald's role in the story, and the NSA's global surveillance program.******
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Mediastan: WikiLeaks 'Road Movie'
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