'Beat the Blockade' — WikiLeaks win in Icelandic courts

Icelandic courts have ordered Visa and Mastercard's local partners to accept payments for WikiLeaks donations, or face daily fines.

On the WikiLeaks website, they state that a blockade by Visa and Mastercard against payments to WikiLeaks has been in effect now for 587 days.

Now help is on the way, as the Reykjavík District Court in Iceland has ruled that Visa and Mastercard's local partner in that country, Valitor, has broken the law, by preventing WikiLeaks from receiving donations... read more and watch video.

'WikiLeaks will carry on despite crackdown on whistleblowers'

RT interviewed Kristinn Hrafnsson, an Icelandic WikiLeaks member, on the systematic crackdown on whistleblowers worldwide.

In this interesting interview, Hrafnsson, an investigative journalist in Iceland, explains why he joined WikiLeaks as a press spokesman, after the exposure of the banking corruption in Iceland.

He says in the interview, "Julian Assange was working in Iceland the winter 2009-2010. After that Wikileaks actually produced a tremendously important leak which exposed corruption within Iceland. It shed light onto why the entire banking system of Iceland collapsed in 2008. I met him in that period when he was in Iceland working on other things." ... read more and watch interview.