Apple has fixed that it private a Wikileaks iPhone app from its iTunes store.
Wikileaks App was an unofficial, paid-for download that gave people access to the giveaway Wikileaks Twitter feed and papers hold on its website.
It was private 3 days after it was launched on 17 December.
Apple mentioned that the app, that had more than 4,000 downloads before its was pulled, "violated" developer guidelines.
"Apps contingency accede will all local laws and may not put an particular or targeted organisation in harms way," mentioned a orator is to firm.
The app's Russian developer, Igor Barinov, mentioned that Apple had told him it especially disregarded two of its guidelines.
The initial on personal attacks states: "Any app that is defamatory, offensive, mean-spirited, or expected to place the targeted particular or organisation in harms way will be rejected."
The second says "apps contingency accede with all authorised mandate in any place where they are done existing to users".
"[Apple] mentioned there is no way back for this application," Mr Barinov told BBC News.
The withdrawal comes at a time when a array of firms - inclusive Amazon, Visa, Mastercard and PayPal - have private services - inclusive web hosting and estimate of donations - to Wikileaks.
These have stirred a array of attacks on the firms' websites and services by a organisation of activists, who call themselves Anonymous.
Although the Wikileaks app was unaccepted , Mr Barinov mentioned that $1 from every $1.99 (1.19) sale was channelled to the organisation.
Mr Barinov mentioned he combined the app to encouragement Wikileaks since he was meddlesome in "information about UFOs" that may be contained in papers leaked to the organisation.
Wikileaks apps are still existing for other phones, such as those running Google Android.
All of the element offering by the Wikileaks iPhone app may be accessed for giveaway around the phone's browser and other non-Wikileaks apps.
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