VISA, MASTERCARD SUED FOR BLOCKING DONATIONS TO WIKILEAKS (STA BREAKING NEWS and ARCHIVES)

by STANews , Friday, December 12, 2014, 17:41

Lawyers representing the credit card processor used by WikiLeaks are suing Visa and MasterCard in the United States over the 2010 banking blockade that kept the anti-secrecy group from receiving funds.

On Monday this week, American attorneys for Icelandic hosting provider DataCell ehf filed suit in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia in hopes of having a federal judge award the company upwards of $5 million for what it claims was a coordinated attempt between Visa and MasterCard to restrict funding to WikiLeaks after the secret-spilling organization started publishing classified US State Department cables over four years ago.

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http://rt.com/usa/214007-datacell-wikileaks-bank-blockade/