Wikileaks has suspended the publication of new revelatory documents

Wikileaks has suspended the publication of new revelatory documents. Due to the blockade of payment systems donations from the site, publishing secret diplomatic correspondence, almost ran out of money.

The site Wikileaks, which specializes in the publication of classified diplomatic cables, temporarily suspend operations due to financial difficulties, described in an official statement posted on the front page of the site.

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The largest payment system - Visa, MasterCard, Western Union and PayPal - refused to cooperate with the scandalous resource back in 2010. According to Assange, the blockade of the leading payment systems Wikileaks deprived 95% of revenue, according to The Guardian.

The system of collecting donations for the site has earned in 2010, recalled Assange, creators of the resource initially collected up to € 100,000 per month, but soon fell to the amount of donations € 6-7 thousand per month.

The sharp decline in financial support Wikileaks has become possible because of the blockade by large financial corporations in the USA, I am convinced Assange. It was introduced after the publication on the site of part of the available 250,000 U.S. State Department documents.

Statement of financial difficulties the site was not a surprise. Recently it became known that Wikileaks can not afford a lawyer. Assange explained that the resource has to litigation in several countries (Denmark, Iceland, Australia). In addition, the founder of the resource pays for the services of lawyers trying to overturn his extradition to Sweden, where he is accused of sexual harassment. To pay the bills, too, lawyers Assange previously announced fundraising.

In addition to collecting donations website Wikileaks was trying to earn money by selling souvenirs in February 2011 launched an online store to sell goods with the symbols of the site. Shop to accept bank cards Visa and MasterCard, thus bypassing the blockade of the system for collecting donations. In September, Wikileaks put up for sale on internet auction site eBay belongings Assange. Assange photograph with his autograph, made at its 40th anniversary, can be purchased for $ 900, a bag of coffee from a London prison, where he was in December 2010, the founder of the resource - for $ 350. The computer on which Wikileaks team collected and prepared for publication by the secret documents were offered to collectors at a starting price of $ 500,000. At the time of publication of these lots on eBay is no longer.

Wikileaks - the international network project, which aimed to publish and document analysis have become available due to leaks. The project was founded in 2006, but became widely known after the publication in 2010 of so-called Afghan dossier - thousands of secret documents about the Afghan military campaign, U.S.. The documents, in particular, testified to the killing of Afghan civilians. The U.S. government condemned the publication and urged the media not to distribute information published by Wikileaks. Nevertheless, the documents reprinted the world's leading publications - British The Guardian, U.S. The New York Times and the German magazine Der Spiegel.

The next major action was the publication of Wikileaks dossier on Iraq U.S. campaign, which also contained the documents confirming the killing of civilians by U.S. soldiers. This leak was called the largest in U.S. history.

Website created by Julian Assange is now in London, under house arrest and awaiting court decision on extradition to Sweden, where he is accused of sexual harassment.


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