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[Australia] McCarthy, Joanne, “No help for Orkopoulos whistleblower Gillian Sneddon,” theherald.com.au., November 21, 2009.

GILLIAN Sneddon has officially fallen through the cracks in the system. She helped police put her former boss, Swansea MP Milton Orkopoulos, in jail for child sex offences, but NSW Deputy Ombudsman Chris Wheeler has confirmed what Ms Sneddon already knew there is nowhere she can turn for help about her treatment as a whistleblower. Click here to read more.

[Malta] Vella, Francesca, “Whistleblower Act expected shortly,” The Malta Independent, November 20, 2009.

Justice and Home Affairs Minister Carmelo Mifsud Bonnici said yesterday that the Whistleblower Act is expected to be introduced shortly, possibly towards the end of the year or the beginning of next year. Click here to read more.

[Iran] McGough, Steve, “Whistleblower Iranian physician dead,” Radio Vice Online, November 18, 2009.

Well isn’t this just grand. Twenty-six year old Iranian prison doctor Ramin Pourandarjani who went public with reports of torture and murder after the recently-squashed Iranian revolution is dead after a car accident. Or is it a heart attack. Or maybe suicide. Or maybe he was poisoned. Click here to read more.

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[Vietnam] "Whistleblower prompts inspection of Vietnam's Jetstar airline," EarthTimes, November 11, 2009. 

Hanoi - Vietnamese authorities are inspecting budget carrier Jetstar Pacific Airlines (JPA) after two foreign engineers fired by the company accused it of violating safety protocols, government officials said Wednesday. Jetstar Pacific's former chief engineer, Bernard John McCune of Australia, and one of his colleagues sent a letter on October 26 to the Vietnam Aviation Agency detailing several violations of safety rules. Click here to read more. 

[Canada] "Hydro employees intimidated: whistleblower," CBCNEWS, November 10, 2009.

A Manitoba Hydro whistleblower said Tuesday that employees at the publicly owned utility are being threatened to stay quiet about allegations of mismanagement and that she fears an investigation into her claims is being swept under the rug. Click here to read more.

[Russia] Whitemore, Brian, "'YouTube'Whistleblower Arrives in Moscow On Police Day, As Scandal Deepens, Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty, November 10, 2009. 

His bank card and mobile phone were blocked. He was detained on the way to the airport. And he had a tough time buying a plane ticket. But Aleksei Dymovsky, a police major in the Black Sea port city of Novorossiisk, managed to make it to Moscow, where he continued his campaign to expose what he called widespread malfeasance and corruption in Russia's law-enforcement bodies. Click here to read more. 

[UK] Award for whistleblower nurse, Press Association, November 10, 2009.

A whistleblower nurse struck off after raising concerns about poor standards of care insisted she had done the right thing as she picked up a national nursing award. Margaret Haywood secretly filmed the neglect of elderly patients for a television documentary and was struck off the nursing register for misconduct in April. She admitted breaching patient but said she had agreed to film at the Royal Sussex Hospital in Brighton to highlight terrible conditions there. Click here to read more. 

[IEA] Macalister, Terry, "Key oil figures were distorted by US pressure, says whistleblower," guardian.co.uk, November 9, 2009. 

The world is much closer to running out of oil than official estimates admit, according to a whistleblower at the International Energy Agency who claims it has been deliberately underplaying a looming confidentiality shortage for fear of triggering panic buying. The senior official claims the US has played an influential role in encouraging the watchdog to underplay the rate of decline from existing oil fields while overplaying the chances of finding new reserves. Click here to read more. 

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