Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange, talks with reporters on the balcony of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, UK, in May 2017.(Photo: Facundo Arrizabalaga, EPA-EFE)

The founder of Wikileaks, Julian Assange, who has been sitting for six years at the Embassy of Ecuador, suing Ecuador for "violation of his fundamental rights and freedoms" by imposing new rules regarding his use of Internet, its political activity, its hygiene of the chat room, according to media reports.

Baltasar Garzon, the lawyer of Wikileaks, the denunciation website named by Assange, arrived in Ecuador to pursue the case, which is expected to be heard by a national court next week, Sky News reports.

Wikileaks claims that Assange's access to the outside world has been "summarily cut off" by a crackdown on his activities. The complaint will also argue that Ecuador has threatened to withdraw the protection it has enjoyed since its political asylum, according to Sky News.

Assange, 47, first was a refugee at the London Embassy in 2012 to avoid being extradited to Sweden for questioning about rape allegations. Although the investigation was dropped last year, Assange is still under indictment in Britain for leaping bail.

Assange, an Australian, has also chosen to remain on guard, fearing that the United States will immediately demand his arrest and extradition because of the disclosure of documents classified to WikiLeaks by the United States of that time. Army soldier Chelsea Manning.

WikiLeaks is also at the center of Special Advocate Robert Mueller's investigation into Russia's interference in the 2016 US presidential election by distributing pirated documents.

In March, Ecuador banned Assange from using the Internet for violating an agreement signed in late 2017 that he should not use his releases to interfere in the affairs of other states.

Ecuador strengthened its position following the May election of President Lenin Moreno, who described Assange as a "hacker", a "legacy problem" and a "stone in the shoe".

Assange, an Australian computer scientist, has particularly drawn the wrath of Ecuador by angering the Spanish government for its support for separatist leaders in the Catalan region who tried to secede last year.

The new rules, which appear in a 9-page note in Spanish obtained by Ecuador's Codigo Vidrio's website, compel him to refrain from any activity "likely to harm Ecuador's good relations with others." other states, "reports The Independent.

Ecuador also insists that he cleans the bathroom of his lair at the embassy and that he takes better care of his cat, which has a Twitter account, EmbassyCat. The cat, also cut off from the Internet, has not posted on Twitter or Instagram since last October.

Assange told CNN in 2012 that he was living in one room with a frosted glass window while the affairs of the diplomatic mission were continuing around him.

"It's a bit like living in a space station, because there is no natural light and you have to make your own, you can not go to the stores, etc.," he said. Assange at CNN four months after his refuge. "But I've been in isolation – I know what a prisoner's life looks like – it's much better than a prisoner."

The Ecuadorian government recently tried to solve the thorny problem by granting Assange citizenship and calling him a diplomat to give him the immunity to travel to Moscow, Bloomberg said this week. This failed, however, when Britain refused to accept her diplomatic appointment, which would suggest that she would not honor any diplomatic immunity when he left the embassy.

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