> Wikileaks editor @julianassange has been gagged and isolated by order of Ecuador's new president @Lenin Moreno. He cannot tweet, speak to the press, recieve visitors or make telephone calls. Ecuador demanded that he remove the following Tweet:
> [Assange's tweet] "In 1940 the elected president of Catalonia, Lluís Companys, was captured by the Gestapo, at the request of Spain, delivered to them and executed. Today, German police have arrested the elected president of Catalonia, Carles Puigdemont, at the request of Spain, to be extradited."
> This is the only tweet the government of Ecuador asked to be removed. In an email to his London lawyers on 27 March at 14:54 BST the Ecuadorian foreign ministry referenced no other matter.
Complete shot in the dark-time.
Since many say that Russia is behind Wikileaks and Russia said they would respond to the diplomat expulsion.. Russia somehow pressured Ecuador into cutting his internet to trigger Assange's dead mans switch?
1) the spanish nationalist media is all histerical about this event, thanking Ecuador for its help and solidarity
2) this comes just one day after Assange started re-tweeting again about Catalonia, after several months of radio silence about the subject
3) he has always been commenting about russia, the uk, and many other things.
4) The UK can not effectively cut the connection to Assange, only Ecuador (by threatening to expel him from his embassy).