{"id":275877,"date":"2016-10-27T13:11:31","date_gmt":"2016-10-27T12:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/wikileaks-director-gavin-macfadyen-has-passed-away\/"},"modified":"2016-10-27T13:11:31","modified_gmt":"2016-10-27T12:11:31","slug":"wikileaks-director-gavin-macfadyen-has-passed-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/wikileaks-director-gavin-macfadyen-has-passed-away\/","title":{"rendered":"WikiLeaks Director Gavin MacFadyen Has Passed Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>WikiLeaks Director and founder of the Centre for Investigative Journalism Gavin MacFadyen has died. WikiLeaks confirmed on their official Twitter account that the journalist had passed by posting a tribute to the man they say is now taking \u201chis fists and his fight to battle God.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p>Gavin Macfadyen, beloved director of WikiLeaks, now takes his fists and his fight to battle God. Sock it to him, forever, Gavin. -JA <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7zyzs1Qxxk\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/7zyzs1Qxxk<\/a><\/p>\n<p> \u2014 WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wikileaks\/status\/789987961123188736\" target=\"_blank\">October 23, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The publication announced the death of the beloved director by posting a photo and tribute to their Twitter account. The message was signed \u201cJA\u201d indicating that it came directly from WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange; however, it is currently unknown at this time how Assange gained internet access as he recently had his access cut by the Ecuadorian Embassy over potential election \u201cinterference\u201d charges.<\/p>\n<p>WikiLeaks also posted a statement from MacFadyen\u2019s wife, Susan Benn, to the social media account.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.inquisitr.com\/3629715\/wikileaks-director-gavin-macfadyen-has-died-publication-posts-tribute-breaking\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read the rest here. <\/a><\/p>\n<section>\n<h2>Comments<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/wikileaks-director-gavin-macfadyen-has-passed-away\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WikiLeaks Director and founder of the Centre for Investigative Journalism Gavin MacFadyen has died. WikiLeaks confirmed on their official Twitter account that the journalist had passed by posting a tribute to the man they say is now taking \u201chis fists and his fight to battle God.\u201d Gavin Macfadyen, beloved director of WikiLeaks, now takes his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-275877","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}