The whistleblower of Australian army crimes in Afghanistan was sentenced to prison

According to the regional office of Tasnim news agency, “David McBride, a former lawyer of the Australian army, was sentenced to five years and eight months in prison on the charge of revealing secret military documents to journalists about the “war crime of the Australian army in Afghanistan”.

The Australian government claims that the documents disclosed by McBride are a threat to the “security and defense of Australia”. He collected mainly from the Supreme Court of the capital in the period of May 2014 to December 2015, 207 of which are confidential and some are classified cabinet documents. McBride’s lawyer argued that his client believed that in 2013 the military had adopted a policy of “excessive investigation of soldiers” to make up for previously reported war crimes against Australian soldiers.

He also stated: His client did not think that he had committed a crime, and also his decision to disclose the documents he had was affected by his “depressed mental health and post-traumatic stress disorder”.

Ogers added: the risk of the documents falling into the hands of others other than the journalists to whom the documents were provided was also low.

This lawyer The 60-year-old, on the eve of the announcement of the court verdict, reiterated that his client’s disclosure was justified and only led to the disclosure of wrongdoings.

A four-year investigation, known as the report Britton” in 2020 shows that Australian special forces killed 39 unarmed and civilian prisoners in Afghanistan between 2005 and 2016.

According to some reports, most of these victims were in the captivity of these soldiers and some of them were killed while farming on their lands.

In his investigation, the inspector general found that none of these murders were in the battlefield or conditions Nothing like it has happened and many of these murders have been committed by soldiers who wanted to commit their first murder. Prison will be sentenced.

It has faced a wave of criticism.

However, the judge of the case clarified that the Australian Army has not taken any steps to investigate the possible risks caused by the disclosure of these documents, and the evidence of such a thing It has never been seen before.

Chard Marle, the Minister of Defense of Australia, previously said that the government of this country is considering the options of paying compensation to the victims of war crimes in Afghanistan. But so far this plan has not been implemented.

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