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Wikileaks ‘crusade’ to expose government secrets has put hundreds of ordinary people at risk – including rape victims and the mentally ill.
In one shocking case, the site published the name of a gay man in Saudi Arabia, where homosexuality is punishable by death.
The site has been blamed for publishing medical files belonging to ordinary people – and naming teenage rape victims.
Private details of dozens of people were revealed in a recent leak of Saudi diplomatic cables – including 124 medical files, some describing patients with psychiatric conditions.
One man who said Wikileaks had revealed the details of his paternity suit said, ‘They published everything: my phone, address, name, details.
‘If the family of my wife saw this … Publishing personal stuff like that could destroy people.
‘This has nothing to do with politics or corruption,’ said Dr. Nayef al-Fayez, a consultant in the Jordanian capital of Amman who confirmed that a brain cancer patient of his was among those whose details were published to the web.
Dr. Adnan Salhab, a retired practitioner in Jordan who also had a patient named in the files, said, ‘This is illegal what has happened!’
Attempts by AP reporters to reach WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange were unsuccessful.
