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A financial blockade of Bank of America, VISA, MasterCard, PayPal and Western Union has destroyed 95% of the income of Wikileaks, Julian Assange, founder of the organization, said.
"Our limited resources must now focus exclusively on the fight against illegal banking blockade," said Assange. "If this financial attack is undeniable, a dangerous precedent, oppressive and undemocratic that have been established, the implications of which go beyond WikiLeaks and its work."
Speaking in front of a backdrop showing the reverse logos of VISA, MasterCard, PayPal and Bank of America, Assange said his organization, which facilitates the anonymous leak of secret information, had been operating in the cash reserves for 11 months .
Many financial institutions stopped doing business with the site after it published a confidential U.S. Treasury diplomatic cables late last year, and donations have been blocked.
"It's absurd. This is unprecedented," said Wikileaks spokesman Kristinn Hrafnsson reporters Monday.
U.S. authorities have said that disclosure of classified information was illegal and the risks to individuals and national security.
"Wikileaks has ignored our requests ... do not deliver or distribute any documents that might have the U.S. and has continued its well-established pattern of reckless irresponsible and downright dangerous actions," said State Department spokesman U.S. . UU., Victoria Nuland, last month.
Assange said Monday that Wikileaks publications are protected by the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitutionand said there were no trials or charges against your organization.
WikiLeaks said Monday it had launched an antitrust lawsuit with the financial blockade on the European Commission. The organization also said it had begun "prior administrative action" against funding blocks in Iceland, Denmark, United Kingdom, Belgium, USA and Australia.
Calling the banking blockade an "existential threat" to Wikileaks, Assange said that "violates the laws of many countries and arbitrarily drawn to an organization that has not committed any illegal act in any country and is cut away from the people of each country."
WikiLeaks has more than 100,000 "outstanding publications," said Assange, and needs about $ 3.5 million to operate over the next 12 months.
But despite the temporary freeze on the publication of new material, Wikileaks is planning to take submissions.
Next month - on the first anniversary of the international newspapers first published days U.S. diplomatic cables obtained by Wikileaks - the organization plans to launch a new reporting system designed to ensure the anonymity of the persons submitting the information on the site.
"At this point, you can not trust anyone ... internet connection, you can not trust the banking system to rely on any regular web-based secure encryption system," he said.
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