厄瓜多爾承認限制阿桑奇上網

Ecuador's government admitted Tuesday that it had “temporarily restricted” WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's internet access at its London embassy after the site published documents from Hillary Clinton's U.S. presidential campaign.

A foreign ministry statement said that while it stands by its decision in 2012 to grant Assange asylum, it does not interfere in foreign elections. Leftist President Rafael Correa's government said it was acting on its own and not ceding to foreign pressures.

WikiLeaks, in tweets Tuesday morning, alleged that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry had asked Ecuador to stop Assange from publishing documents about Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

State Department spokesperson John Kirby categorically denied the assertion. “While our concerns about WikiLeaks are longstanding, any suggestion that Secretary Kerry or the State Department were involved in shutting down WikiLeaks is false,” Kirby said. “Reports that Secretary Kerry had conversations with Ecuadorian officials about this are simply untrue. Period.”厄瓜多爾政府星期二承認，曾“臨時限制” 維基揭祕創始人阿桑奇上網。阿桑奇目前住在厄瓜多爾駐倫敦大使館。被限制上網前維基揭祕發表了希拉里∙克林頓競選的相關文件。

厄瓜多爾外交部的聲明說，雖然厄瓜多爾信守2012年給予阿桑奇避難的決定，但是厄瓜多爾並不干涉外國選舉。左派總統科雷亞領導的政府表示，有關行動是自行採取的，並非迫於外國壓力。

維基揭祕星期二上午在推文中，指控美國國務卿克里曾請求厄瓜多爾制止阿桑奇發表有關民主黨總統候選人希拉里·克林頓的文件。

美國國務院發言人科比全然否認上訴說法。科比說：“我們對維基揭祕的憂慮是一貫的，但是任何有關國務卿克里或者國務院參與關閉維基揭祕的暗示都是錯誤的。有關克里國務卿曾就此同厄瓜多爾官員進行過交談的報道完全不真實，情況就是這樣。”