Assange is Le Monde 'Man of the Year'
Visitors to the newspaper's website voted in favour of Assange with 56 per cent backing him for the honour.
PARIS:
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 latest release of leaked documents.
The newspaper named Assange in a weekly supplement magazine due to appear on Friday.
Visitors to the newspaper's website voted in favour of Assange with 56 per cent backing him for the honour, compared to 22 per cent for jailed Chinese dissident and Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo and 6.9 per cent for American Facebook President Mark Zuckerberg.
Time magazine last week pronounced Zuckerberg its "Person 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 latest release of leaked documents.
The newspaper named Assange in a weekly supplement magazine due to appear on Friday.
Visitors to the newspaper's website voted in favour of Assange with 56 per cent backing him for the honour, compared to 22 per cent for jailed Chinese dissident and Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo and 6.9 per cent for American Facebook President Mark Zuckerberg.
Time magazine last week pronounced Zuckerberg its "Person of the Year."