Earlier this week, Wikileaks claimed its editor-in-chief Julian Assange’s internet access was blocked by a ‘state party’ at the Embassy of Ecuador in London, where the asylum-seeker is currently holed up.<br />The government of Ecuador has now owned up doing so.<br />Ecuador said it did so following Wikileaks’ publishing of several collections of Hillary Clinton’s confidential email correspondence, which may have an impact on the US presidential elections.<br />Ecuador said it “respects the principle of non-intervention in the internal affairs of other states.”