Datacell, which accepts credit card donations for Wikileaks, has said it will take action if Visa Europe and Mastercard continue not to process these payments. The two credit card companies say they are not willing to work for Wikileaks any more.
Reporter:
Theo Leggett
Theo Leggett
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Wikileaks is a voluntary organisation which relies on donations to pay for its operations. Over the past few days, two of the mainsources of that money have been blocked. On Tuesday, the credit card giants Visa Europe and Mastercard said they would suspend payments to Wikileaks, following a similar move by the online service Paypal on Friday. But the company which receives credit card donations on Wikileaks' behalf is threatening legal action. Datacell, an IT firm based in Iceland, has refused to comply with requests to shut down its donor account. It says those requests were based on "untrue and unverified accusations". It claims that if its credit card facilities are withdrawn permanently, its own business will be in danger - and it will sue the credit card firms for damages, which it says would not be small.
Theo Leggett, BBC News
Vocabulary
voluntary organisation
organisasi yang bekerja secara sukarela
relies on
bergantung pada
donations
donasi, sumbangan
sources
sumber
credit card giants
perusahaan kartu kredit raksasa
legal action
tindakan hukum
to comply with
mengikuti atau mematuhi
donor account
rekening bank milik donor
withdrawn
dihentikan
damages
kerugian
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