Assange, living inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London since four years back, has in recent months been leaked several documents from Hillary Clinton’s private e-mail.
It is a pretty card with the sweet communiqué yesterday evening, came from Ecuador’s ministry of foreign affairs.
“Ecuador gave asylum to Julian Assange because he risked political persecution because of his work with Wikileaks. In recent weeks, Wikileaks published a large amount of documents affecting the election campaign in the united states. Ecuador’s government respects the principle that states should not interfere in each other’s national affairs, such as general elections, and should not support any particular political candidate. Therefore, Ecuador has decided to temporarily restrict access to the internet at our embassy in London,” it says in the communiqué.
Then follow several lines if Ecuador does not take his hand from Assange and to hold fast to the promise to give him asylum – but it still seems like Ecuador and the embassy in London tired of his australian lodger.
Assange took refuge to the Ecuadorian embassy in 2012 when he was accused of rape in Sweden, and therefore liable to extradition from the Uk where he found himself. Assange claims that Sweden plans to extradite him to the united states, who wants to ask Wikileaks founder facing trial on charges that have spread of classified military documents.
Ecuador has for many years received criticism for the decision to grant asylum to Julian Assange, but in recent weeks the situation has escalated after Wikileaks leaked more leaked documents from Hillary Clinton’s private e-mail. The situation is closest to the point of embarrassing for the president of Ecuador Rafael Correa, who said that he hopes that Clinton will be the americans ‘ next president.
Wikileaks claims that US secretary of state John Kerry should have exerted pressure on Ecuador to turn off Assange’s access to the internet. But the White House rejects those accusations.
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