Does it really make our country a better place to imprison a whistleblower whose actions led to public interest reporting on war crimes in Afghanistan?
Former army lawyer David McBride has been jailed for stealing and leaking documents about war crimes committed by soldiers in Afghanistan.Former army lawyer David McBride has been jailed for stealing and leaking documents about war crimes committed by soldiers in Afghanistan.
After growing unsatisfied with efforts to raise concerns internally, McBride contacted several journalists – ultimately giving numerous documents to the ABC, which formed the basis for the Afghan Files. He was arrested in 2018 and has faced prosecution ever since. His long court battle culminated on Tuesday, with a prison term of five years and eight months .
In his reasons for sentencing McBride to such a lengthy time behind bars, Justice David Mossop dwelled on the need for deterrence – to stop people like McBride speaking up in the future. On one hand that was orthodox enough: deterrence is a long-established principle of criminal law sentencing.
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