Wikileaks publishes court suppression order on …

By Aap

Published: 22:41 EST, 29 July 2014 | Updated: 22:41 EST, 29 July 2014

Twitter and Google+ users may face legal action for sharing a Wikileaks publication of a court suppression order relating to an international political corruption case.

The anti-secrecy website published full details of the legal suppression order issued by the Victorian Supreme Court on June 19.

The Wikileaks posting was soon shared by social media subscribers, putting them at risk of being in contempt of the court order, Fairfax news reports.

Wikileaks leader Julian Assange says the Australian public have a right to know the contesnt of the Victorian Supreme Court suppression order his anti-secrecy website has published in full in relation to an international political corruption case. But social media users who have shared the posting on Twitter and Google+ face potential legal action against them for being in contempt of the court order

Exiled Wikileaks leader Julian Assange has come out in defence of the Wikileaks publication, describing the suppression order as one of the worst of its kind 'in living memory'.

Wikileaks published the full text of the June 19 Victorian Supreme Court order, the contents of which which Australian media organisations are legally prevented from publishing.

The court order was reportedly made to prevent damage to Australian international relations.

But Wikileaks claimed the gag order effectively blacked out the largest high-level corruption case in Australia and the region.

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