23/12/2010 10:58
WikiLeaks' Assange is Le Monde 'Man of the Year'
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been named "Man of the Year" by France's Le Monde newspaper, one of the five publications to cooperate with the whistleblowing website on its its latest release of leaked documents.
The newspaper names Assange in a weekly supplement magazine due to appear on Friday, ITAR-TASS reports.
Visitors to the newspaper's website voted in favour of Assange with 56 percent backing him for the honour, compared to 22 percent for jailed Chinese dissident and Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo and 6.9 percent for American Facebook President Mark Zuckerberg.