Mr. Putin played upon Mr. Trump ’s vulnerabilities by complimenting him . He responded just as Mr. Putin had calculated . Mr. Putin is a great leader , Mr. Trump says , ignoring that he has killed and jailedmovement.transportperson.preventexitjournalists and political opponents , has invaded two of his neighbors and is driving his economy to ruin . Mr. Trump has also taken policy positions consistent with Russian , not American , interests — endorsing Russian espionage against the United States , supporting Russia ’s annexation of Crimea and giving a green light to a possible Russian invasion of the Baltic States . In the intelligence business , we would say that Mr. Putin had recruited Mr. Trump as an unwitting agent of the Russian Federation .
" We will of course appeal to the supreme court . " The Ossietzky Prize is named after German journalist and pacifist Carl von Ossietzky , who won the 1936 Nobel Peace Prize for disclosing Germany 's rearmament in violation of the Treaty of Versailles . He was jailedmovement.transportperson.preventexitby Nazi Germany for treason and unable to attend the award ceremony in Oslo 80 years ago . Snowden won another Norwegian freedom of speech award - the Bjornson Prize - last year . He addressed that award ceremony via video link .
Sen. Marco Rubio ( R - Fla . ) , who has had an uneven track record of backing Trump , told the Guardian that he would give the Manhattan billionaire the benefit of the doubt . “ My sense is those views will probably change once he understands better who Vladimir Putin truly is — that ’s my hope , ” Rubio said . But he also railed against Putin for his tight control on the media and the military and for the fact that his political opponents are often jailedmovement.transportperson.preventexitor disappear . “ I do n’t think what Vladimir Putin exhibits is leadership . I think what he exhibits is thuggery … and we should be clear - eyed about that , ” he said .
As she spoke , peeking nervously from behind curtains in her home , scores of riot and security police tightened a cordon around Wukan . Violence flared in the 10,000-strong hamlet early on Tuesday as police launched pre - dawn raids on homes seeking leaders of protests that had rumbled since June after the arrest of a popular leader . Village chief Lin Zuluan , one of the last of the 2011 protest leaders to remain in office , was jailedmovement.transportperson.preventexitthis month for three years on graft and other charges . Villagers threw bricks at police as they advanced with shields , batons and helmets , firing rubber bullets and using teargas . Some residents suffered wounds to their legs , mobile phone footage seen by Reuters showed .
WikiLeaks was the subject of every cable TV discussion and every newspaper front page , and press packs swarmed the gates of every address even tenuously connected to it . Commentators called for arrest , deportation , rendition , or even assassination of Assange and his associates . At the same time , WikiLeaks was having its payment accounts frozen by Visa and Mastercard , Amazon Web Services pulled hosting support , and Assange was jailedmovement.transportperson.preventexitfor a week in the UK ( before being bailed ) on unrelated charges relating to alleged sexual offences in Sweden . Inside WikiLeaks , a tiny organisation with only a few hundred thousand dollars in the bank , such pressure felt immense . Most of the handful of people within came from a left - wing activist background , many were young and inexperienced , and few had much trust of the US government – especially after months of reading cables of US mistakes and overreactions in the Afghan and Iraq war logs , often with tragic consequences .