Payment methods for donations to WikiLeaks have largely been cut off. WikiLeaks has been soliciting donations from supporters on its site for the Julian Assange Defense Fund, under the slogan “Keep Us Strong.”
On Tuesday, MasterCard and Visa Europa suspended all payments to WikiLeaks. Last week, PayPal, an international money transfer service, also closed its account. On Monday, Assange’s Swiss bank account was closed, freezing $133,000 in assets, according WikiLeaks.
The bank of the Swiss post office, PostFinance, has come under heavy attack from hackers after it announced it would close Assange’s account. “Since the closure was announced, the website has been inundated and partially immobilized as a result of the many access attempts,” said Marc Andrey, spokesperson for PostFinance.
Despite Assange’s arrest, WikiLeaks announced the organization will “continue as planned” with the release of classified U.S. diplomatic cables. On Tuesday it posted 77 new cables to its website.
“We will release more cables tonight as normal,” the organization said in a Twitter message.
On Nov. 28, WikiLeaks started releasing a total of 251,287 secret U.S. Embassy cables. To date, 1,060 documents have been published on their website and countless mirror sites.
The move has been strongly condemned by Washington. “The release of this cache of documents puts lives and interests at risk, not just American lives and American interests, but the interests of others around the world,” said Crowley said at a press briefing on Tuesday.
According to Crowley some of the information in the diplomatic cables on critical infrastructure to the United States, released by WikiLeaks on Monday, “is providing a targeting list to a group like al-Qaeda.”
On Tuesday, MasterCard and Visa Europa suspended all payments to WikiLeaks. Last week, PayPal, an international money transfer service, also closed its account. On Monday, Assange’s Swiss bank account was closed, freezing $133,000 in assets, according WikiLeaks.
The bank of the Swiss post office, PostFinance, has come under heavy attack from hackers after it announced it would close Assange’s account. “Since the closure was announced, the website has been inundated and partially immobilized as a result of the many access attempts,” said Marc Andrey, spokesperson for PostFinance.
Despite Assange’s arrest, WikiLeaks announced the organization will “continue as planned” with the release of classified U.S. diplomatic cables. On Tuesday it posted 77 new cables to its website.
“We will release more cables tonight as normal,” the organization said in a Twitter message.
On Nov. 28, WikiLeaks started releasing a total of 251,287 secret U.S. Embassy cables. To date, 1,060 documents have been published on their website and countless mirror sites.
The move has been strongly condemned by Washington. “The release of this cache of documents puts lives and interests at risk, not just American lives and American interests, but the interests of others around the world,” said Crowley said at a press briefing on Tuesday.
According to Crowley some of the information in the diplomatic cables on critical infrastructure to the United States, released by WikiLeaks on Monday, “is providing a targeting list to a group like al-Qaeda.”
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