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Published: 22:41 EST, 29 July 2014 | Updated: 22:41 EST, 29 July 2014 <\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
The anti-secrecy website published full details of the legal suppression order issued by the Victorian Supreme Court on June 19. <\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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 <\/p>\n
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'.<\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
The court order was reportedly made to prevent damage to Australian international relations. <\/p>\n
But Wikileaks claimed the gag order effectively blacked out the largest high-level corruption case in Australia and the region. <\/p>\n
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