“There are cameras everywhere. It is one of the most spied on embassies in the world,” Ecuador’s top diplomat Guillaume Long told reporters in Geneva, on the sidelines of a Human Rights Council session.
“You are very fortunate if you can even make a phone call from inside the embassy. Internet collapses all the time.
Everything is hacked. It is a pretty hostile context for Mr.Assange, every day,” Long said. Asked if he believed British intelligence was responsible for the espionage, Long said: “I have my suspicions.”
Assange, 44, is wanted for questioning over a 2010 rape allegation in Sweden but has been inside Ecuador’s UK mission for more than four years in a bid to avoid extradition.
The anti-secrecy campaigner, who denies the allegation, walked into the embassy of his own free will on June 18, 2012, with Britain on the brink of sending him to Stockholm, and has not left since.
Long said Assange’s health was deteriorating, mentioning a serious arm problem without providing details.