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Supporters and insiders say they have shut down government sites Zimbabwe

Harare : Zimbabwe | Dec 31, 2010 at 9:36 AM PST
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Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe

Internet activists said they blocked the sites after the Zimbabwean government lifted the wife of Zimbabwe's lawsuit against the newspaper published a leaked cable Wikileaks link between them and the illegal trade of diamonds.



And Grace wife of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's private prosecute newspaper and demanding payment of $ 15 million for publishing details of the cables has a U.S. site Wikileaks says Grace reaped "huge profits" of illegal diamonds.



The activists said the move under the name "Ananoms (Anonymous)" in their statement that they published on their website "We are targeting Mugabe and his regime in the party, ZANU-PF who have banned the free press and threatened to sue those who publish and insiders."



It was not possible to enter at the gate of the Zimbabwean government's electronic AG. T. AT G dot. Oh. Z in the dot. W. on Thursday, while deployment of the Ministry of Finance letter in which he said was undergoing maintenance work.



The group Ananoms closed in the past my MasterCard and Visa, after the imposition of restrictions on the sites pay to Wikileaks.



The Wikileaks site and irritated the United States and the impact on its relations with some countries after the publication of hundreds of leaked secret telegrams from U.S. diplomats. The site says that he has up to a quarter million documents

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