ALMATY. June 24 (Interfax) - Founder of the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks Julian Assange has been honored the best in investigative journalism for 2014 by the Union of Journalists of Kazakhstan.
The union said on its website that it had decided to give this award to Assange following a journalism contest held by Kazakhstan.
A number of Kazakh journalists received this year's awards from the union as well.
Assange has been staying at Ecuador's Embassy in London since June 19, 2012. The Ecuadorian authorities have granted political asylum to the WikiLeaks founder, who has been accused of triggering multiple international scandals.