Disclosure of Classified Information by Wikileaks: A new Conflict Between The Right of Access to Information and National Security

Document Type : Research Paper

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1 Associate Professor of Public Law, Faculty of Law and Political Sciences, University of Tehran, Tehran,Iran.

2 MA in International Law, Faculty of Law and Political Sciences, University of Tehran, Tehran,Iran.

Abstract

Disclosure of classified public interest information has become one of the major legal challenges in recent years. In the past decades the conflict between the right of people to receive information and principle of sovereignty within the framework of traditional media (Direct Broadcast Satellite) resolved in favor of  principle of free flow of information and the said conflict was replaced by the exception of national security. But nowadays, Wikileaks by access to classified information and disseminating them, has shown new conflict between the right of access to information held by the Government and national security. So in this research, besides of analyzing this conflict, we are going to study legal ways of coexistence between Disclosure of classified information and national security within of the right of access to document and information held by the Government.

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Comparative Law Review
Volume 5, Issue 2 - Serial Number 2
Autumn & Winter
October 2014
Pages 535-557

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