WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange was awaphoto99.JPGrded the Sydney Peace Prize gold medal for Peace with Justice at the Frontline Club this afternoon.

Assange is now one of just four people to have been given the award. Nelson Mandela, the 14th Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso and a Japanese Buddhist leader Daisaku Ikeda are the only others to have received the medal in its fourteen year history.