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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Jemima Kiss

Whistleblowers' site taken offline

The whistleblowers' favourite Wikileaks.org has been forced offline after a ruling by a court in California that ordered a permanent injunction against the site.

The case was brought by the Swiss bank Julius Baer after the site published documents concerning its offshore accounts.

We're looking in to this now and speaking to Wikileaks shortly; in a statement they said they had been forced to delete the name wikileaks.org from the Californian domain name registrar; "on Friday the 15th, February 2008, in the home of the free and the land of the brave, and a constitution which states "Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press", the Wikileaks.org press was shutdown."

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