Former
Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa, in an exclusive interview with
the Intercept on Wednesday morning, denounced his country’s current
government’s for blocking Julian Assange from receiving visitors in
its Embassy in London as a form of “torture” and a violation of
Ecuador’s duties to protect Assange’s safety and well-being.
Correa said this took place in the context of Ecuador no longer
maintaining “normal sovereign relations with the American
government — just submission.”
Correa
also responded to a widely discussed Guardian article yesterday which
claimed that “Ecuador bankrolled a multimillion-dollar spy
operation to protect and support Julian Assange in its central London
embassy.” The former President mocked the story as highly
“sensationalistic,” accusing the Guardian of seeking to depict
routine and modest embassy security measures as something scandalous
or unusual.
On March
27, Assange’s internet access at the Ecuadorian embassy in London
was cut off by Ecuadorian officials, who also installed jamming
devices to prevent Assange from accessing the internet using other
means of connection. Assange’s previously active Twitter account
has had no activity since then, nor have any journalists been able to
communicate with him. All visitors to the Embassy have also been
denied access to Assange, who was formally made a citizen of Ecuador
earlier this year.
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