OSLO (AFP) - Norwegian daily Dagsavisen said Friday it was hosting on its website a "mirror" of whistleblowing website WikiLeaks to honour freedom of information.

"Last night, we put all the documents that WikiLeaks has published up to now on our servers. That way, our readers can themselves look in the documents and obtain first hand the information they contain," the tabloid's editor in chief Arne Strand was quoted as saying on dagsavisen.no.

"The attempts to muzzle WikiLeaks are an attack against freedom of information," he said.

"Dagsavisen is doing its part today for WikiLeaks to survive censorship," the paper said on its website.

As it came under cyber attack, WikiLeaks called on Sunday for mirror sites to be created to make it impossible for it to be wiped off the web.

Early Friday, WikiLeaks said it had 1,559 mirror websites.