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List of major WikiLeaks releases

  • 26 December 2006 – Inside Somalia and the Union of Islamic Courts
  • 7 November 2007 – Guantanamo Bay Camp Delta Standard Operating Procedure manual
  • 20 February 2009 – Scientology Secret Bibles
  • 4 September 2009 – Minton report: Trafigura toxic dumping along the Ivory Coast
  • 5 April 2010 – Collateral Murder: Video of civilians & journalists being gunned down by a US military helicopter in Baghdad
  • 25 July 2010 – Afghan War Diaries: 91,000 classified US documents from the War in Afghanistan covering 2004-2010
  • 22 October 2010 – Iraq War Logs: 391,000 classified US documents from the War in Iraq covering 2004-2009
  • 28 November 2010 – Cablegate: 250,000 US diplomatic cables from 1966-2010
  • 25 April 2011 – Gitmo Files: Files on 767 of the 779 prisoners in Guantanamo Bay
  • 1 December 2011 – Spy Files: Documents exposing 160 companies in the mass surveillance industry
  • 27 February 2012 – Global Intelligence Files: 5 million emails from intelligence contractor Stratfor
  • 5 July 2012 – Syria Files: 2.3 million emails from Syrian political elites
  • 19 June 2015 – Saudi Cables: 500,000 cables & Foreign Ministry documents from the Saudi Government
  • 16 November 2015 – Final Texts of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal
  • 25 May 2016 – Documents from the Trade in Services Agreement trade deal
  • 22 July 2016 – DNC Leaks: 44,053 emails and 17,761 attachments from the US Democratic National Committee
  • 7 October 2016 – The Podesta Emails: 58,660 emails from Hillary Clinton campaign Chairman John Podesta
  • 1 December 2016 – German BND-NSA Inquiry Exhibits: 90 GB of information relating to the BND-NSA Inquiry
  • 25 November 2017 – Yemen Files: more than 500 documents from the US embassy in Sana’a, Yemen
  • 16 February 2017 –  CIA espionage orders for the 2012 French presidential election
  • 7 March 2017 – Vault 7: Series of leaks on the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency
  • 28 September 2018 – Secret document concerning a dispute over a £3.6bn Middle Eastern arms deal
  • 11 October 2018 – Amazon Atlas: confidential document from cloud computing provider Amazon

Awards

WikiLeaks, its publisher and its journalists have won many awards, including:

  • The Economist New Media Award (2008)
  • The Amnesty New Media Award (2009)
  • TIME Magazine Person of the Year, People’s Choice (highest global vote) (2010)
  • The Sam Adams Award for Integrity (2010)
  • The National Union of Journalists Journalist of the Year (Hrafnsson) (2011)
  • The Sydney Peace Foundation Gold Medal (2011)
  • The Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism (2011)
  • The Blanquerna Award for Best Communicator (2011)
  • The Walkley Award for Most Outstanding Contribution to Journalism (2011)
  • The Voltaire Award for Free Speech (2011)
  • The International Piero Passetti Journalism Prize of the National Union of Italian Journalists (2011)
  • The Jose Couso Press Freedom Award (2011)
  • The Privacy International Hero of Privacy (2012)
  • The Global Exchange Human Rights People’s Choice Award (2013)
  • The Yoko Ono Lennon Courage Award for the Arts (2013)
  • The Brazillian Press Association Human Rights Award (2013)
  • The Kazakstan Union of Journalists Top Prize (2014)
  • The Willy Brandt Award for Political Courage (Harrison) (2015)
  • The Galizia Prize for Journalists, Whistelblower and Defenders of the Right to Information (2019)
  • The Danny Schechter Global Vision Award for Journalism & Activism (2019)
  • The Gavin MacFadyen Award (2019)

WikiLeaks has also been nominated for the UN Mandela Prize in 2015 and for the Nobel Peace Prize seven times (2010-2015, 2019).