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Julian Assange has His Internet Access Cut Off by Ecuador

posted by martyb on Thursday March 29 2018, @07:26AM   
from the who-ya-gonna-call? dept.

takyon writes:

Ecuador cuts off Julian Assange's internet access at London embassy

The government of Ecuador has confirmed that it has cut off internet access in its embassy in London to Julian Assange, the founder of the whistleblowing site WikiLeaks, saying that he was putting the country's international relations at risk.

In a statement released on Wednesday, Ecuador said that the step had been taken because Assange had failed to abide by an agreement not to interfere in the South American country's relations with other states.

"The government of Ecuador warns that Assange's behaviour, through his messages on social networks, put at risk the country's good relations with the United Kingdom, the other states of the European Union, and other nations," the statement said.

[...] Ecuador temporarily cut Assange's internet connection in 2016, over fears that he was using it to interfere in the US presidential election, but it was later restored.

Also at the Miami Herald and teleSUR.

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• Re:Pressure by Spain? (Score: 3, Informative) by takyon on Thursday March 29 2018, @11:37AM

  by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Thursday March 29 2018, @11:37AM (#659921) Journal

  Spain is rather... sensitive... about this issue. It would be no surprise if additional pressure by Spain gave Equador that extra push.

  Since I doubt anyone here knows much about the ties between Ecuador and Spain, here's a little bit:

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecuador–Spain_relations [wikipedia.org]

  One part that stands out:

  In 2013, there were 456,000 Ecuadorian citizens living in Spain. Many of the Ecuadorians in Spain arrived in the 1990s during the Ecuador financial crisis which led to the country adopting the U.S. dollar. In 2013, 21,000 Spanish citizens resided in Ecuador. Between 2008 and 2015, 35,000 Spanish citizens arrived to Ecuador of which 36% were born in Spain and 62% were Spanish citizens of Ecuadorian origin.

  Ecuador has a population of about 16.5 million.

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