Sarah Harrison

Sarah Harrison is a British former WikiLeaks section editor. She worked with the WikiLeaks' legal defence and has been described as Julian Assange's closest adviser.

Early life Sarah Harrison grew up with two younger sisters and attended a private school in Kent. Her father, Ian Harrison, was an executive in the retail industry and her mother was a specialist in treating reading disabilities.

WikiLeaks

As an intern at the UK-based Centre for Investigative Journalism, Harrison began working with WikiLeaks in August 2010 and was assigned to Julian Assange before the Afghan War documents leak. closest adviser and gatekeeper. In 2014, Harrison spoke about her support for WikiLeaks, saying "the greatest unaccountable power of today [is] the United States and our Western democracies."

Harrison is a former WikiLeaks section editor. from 2014 until April 2017, when WikiLeaks became a Courage beneficiary.

Edward Snowden

On June 23, 2013, National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden boarded a commercial Aeroflot flight, SU213, to Moscow, accompanied by Harrison of WikiLeaks, with an intended final destination of Ecuador due to an Ecuadorian emergency travel document that Snowden had acquired. However Snowden became initially stranded in Russia upon his landing in Moscow when his U.S. passport was revoked. On 24 June 2013, WikiLeaks said that Harrison accompanied Snowden on a high-profile After an appeal ruling in January 2016, journalists were exempt from Schedule 7 and she visited London in September 2016.