Swiss supporters: WikiLeaks server goes down
By Associated Press
Dec 5, 2010 2:09 AM CST
FILE - In this March 17, 2010 file photo, a PayPal employee walks past the PayPal logo at the international headquarters in Singapore. The online payment service provider PayPal has cut off the account used by WikiLeaks to collect donations, serving another blow to the organization just as it was struggling...   (Associated Press)

A Swiss group that supports WikiLeaks says the website's main server in France has gone offline.

Denis Simonet of the Swiss Pirate Party says his group is currently redirecting the domain wikileaks.ch to another server based in Sweden.

Simonet told The Associated Press by phone Sunday that the switch could take several hours but that the site that publishes leaked classified documents is still reachable through the numerical address of its Swedish server.

He was unable to immediately say why the French server stopped working.

WikiLeaks has come under attack from governments and private individuals since releasing thousands of classified U.S. State Department messages last month.