An archive: Since its inception in 2014, the Courage Foundation has supported whistleblowers, journalists, and other truthtellers taking huge risks to inform the public. We started off supporting Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning, and helped make Snowden’s document database widely searchable. In 2018, we helped Lauri Love defeat a U.S. extradition request and set a precedent that can protect others. In 2024, we saw beneficiaries Daniel Hale and Julian Assange finally walk free. Though some of these individuals still deserve pardons to fully clear their names, we’re glad to see them out of prison and re-joining the world they helped transform for the better.
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Chelsea ManningChelsea Manning is a U.S. Army whistleblower, who leaked hundreds of thousands of classified military documents to WikiLeaks in 2010, exposing war crimes, previously uncounted civilian casualties, and the true nature of modern… Read more: Chelsea Manning
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Emin HuseynovEmin Huseynov is a human rights defender who fled persecution from Azerbaijan when authorities raided the offices of his organization in 2014. Huseynov fled to Switzerland in 2015.
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Jeremy HammondJeremy Hammond is an anarchist hacker who was arrested and imprisoned for sending thousands of emails from intelligence firm Stratfor to WikiLeaks, who then published the files exposing widespread corruption and illegality in… Read more: Jeremy Hammond
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Justin LivermanThe United States Department of Justice has accused computer science student Justin Liverman of being associated with Crackas with Attitude (CWA), the group that claimed to have accessed emails from the AOL account… Read more: Justin Liverman
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Lauri LoveLauri Love is a Finnish-British dual citizen who successfully defeated a U.S. extradition request in 2018, when he was indicted for allegedly defacing the Justice Department’s website in protest of the DOJ’s persecution… Read more: Lauri Love
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LuxLeaksWhistleblowers at PriceWaterhouseCooper exposed widespread tax-evasion fraud in reporting that later became known as LuxLeaks. Antoine Deltour and Raphaël Halet were imprisoned for blowing the whistle on PWC, though a court later overturned… Read more: LuxLeaks
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Matt DeHartMatt DeHart is a former U.S. Air National Guard intelligence analyst who was prosecuted for allegedly running a data server which hosted files destined for WikiLeaks and allegedly dealing with the FBI investigating… Read more: Matt DeHart
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Reality WinnerThe indictment of Reality Winner may be the opening salvo in the Trump Administration’s war on leaks. Reality is facing a serious charge under the Espionage Act for allegedly sharing an NSA report… Read more: Reality Winner