Ecuador cuts off Assange's internet access.

Ecuador has cut off Julian Assange's communications with the outside world from its London embassy, where the founder of the whistle-blower website WikiLeaks has been living for nearly six years.

In a statement, the government of Ecuador said that it had acted because Assange had breached "a written commitment made to the government at the end of 2017 not to issue messages that might interfere with other states".

According to the statement, Assange's recent behaviour on social media "put at risk the good relations Ecuador maintains with the UK, with other states of the European Union, and with other nations".

The government acted after Assange tweeted critically on Monday of Britain’s accusation that Russia was responsible for the nerve agent poisoning of a Russian former double agent and his daughter in the city of Salisbury earlier this month.

Assange also questioned the decision by the UK and more than 20 other countries to expel 150 Russian diplomats they claim are spies.

This is not the first time Ecuador cuts off Assange's internet access. The same thing happened in October 2016 amid fears that Ecuador would be sucked into efforts to interfere in the American election by the activities of the WikiLeaks founder.

Ecuador said it was not evicting Assange from its embassy and that its "temporary restriction" of internet services "does not prevent the WikiLeaks organization from carrying out its journalistic activities".

The move was clearly intended to keep the embassy from being the control centre for leaking operations.

Julian Assange went to the embassy in 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden to face questioning about rape allegations, which he denies.

Sweden dropped the case last May because too much time had passed.

Al Jazeera.