Julian Assange, WikiLeaks founder
The founder of WikiLeaks Julian Assange, who is currently living in the embassy of Ecuador in London as an asylum seeker since 2012 has been shut-down of internet access by the Ecuadorian government.
Julian Assange accused the Ecuadorian government and the American government of collaborating together to shut him down of the internet access because of the leaked emails he released of Mrs Hillary Clinton the Democrat presidential candidate.
But Ecuador prime minister came out to defend it as saying there is no such thing from the American government of trying to pressure them of doing such, that they don't want to meddling into the US presidential election, that the publication Assange carried out was from his own wish.
The US has also come out to deny the allegation through the state department saying it is "simply untru".
It will be recall that the founder of WikiLeaks is currently living as an asylum seeker in Ecuadorian embassy in London since 2012 in order to avoid not being extradite over sex assault allegations from his country.
In trying to clear their name from the Assange saga over the email he released, Ecuador released a statement saying the transparency activist did all he did in his own responsibility.
the statement continued: "In that respect, Ecuador, exercising its sovereign right, has temporarily restricted access to part of its communications systems in its UK Embassy."
Adding: "Ecuador does not cede to pressures from other countries".
The internet is said to have been cut shut-down on Saturday evening according to Julian Assange.
the statement continued: "In that respect, Ecuador, exercising its sovereign right, has temporarily restricted access to part of its communications systems in its UK Embassy."
Adding: "Ecuador does not cede to pressures from other countries".
The internet is said to have been cut shut-down on Saturday evening according to Julian Assange.
The emails released by WikiLeaks revealed how Mrs Clinton's paid speeches to Goldman Sach and also the emails of her campaign chairman John Podesta, some of the emails also revealed the argumentation between Mrs Clinton and the executives of investment banks which may bring about fears amog liberal Democrats that she too cosy with Wall Street, but the Democrats has since said it was orchestrated by the Russians hackers with the aim of meddling in the US election.
The leaked emails also saw were Mrs Clinton was telling Goldman Sachs he will like to intervene in Syria issue secretly but since no one has come out to say anything consigning the emails
Mrs Clinton was responding to a question from Lloyd Blankfein, the then bank chief executive, in 2013 after recently leaving office of secretary of state.
The email show she was paid $225,000 to give a speech
"My view was you intervene as covertly as is possible for Americans to intervene "We used to be much better at this than we are now. Now, you know, everybody can't help themselves.
"They have to go out and tell their friendly reporters and somebody else: Look what we're doing and I want credit for it."
"My view was you intervene as covertly as is possible for Americans to intervene "We used to be much better at this than we are now. Now, you know, everybody can't help themselves.
"They have to go out and tell their friendly reporters and somebody else: Look what we're doing and I want credit for it."
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