Judge orders processing of Wikileaks donations by major credit card companies

(CN) - An Icelandic judge ordered major credit card companies to start processing WikiLeaks donations within two weeks or pay $6,200 a day in sanctions.

Days after major newspapers reported on WikiLeaks-published U.S. State Department cables in late 2010, Amazon, PayPal and major credit card companies stopped processing donations for the whistleblowing website, cutting off its financial lifeblood.

On Bastille Day 2011, WikiLeaks and its service provider Datacell sued Visa and Valitor hr, the Icelandic partner of Mastercard, in Reykjavik District Court, saying that the illegal "blockade" had cost them 95 percent of their donations.

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